Our book selection for this month is Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. We will continue to meet on Zoom on the third Thursday of each month. This month’s meeting is October 15 at 1 pm. For information, contact either Mary Feidner or Margaret Howland.
Below is a description of the book from the publisher’s website:
“Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.”
“Salvage the Bones is an intense book, with powerful, direct prose that dips into poetic metaphor . . . the story is told with such immediacy and openness . . . That close-knit familial relationship is vivid and compelling, drawn with complexities and detail.” – Los Angeles Times
“The novel’s hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip and hold on like Skeetah’s pit bull.”” – Ellen Feldman, O, the Oprah Magazine
“A fresh new voice in American literature, Ward unflinchingly describes a world full of despair but not devoid of hope.” – PW Starred review for Where the Line Bleeds
“Her prodigious talent and fearless portrayal of a world too often overlooked make her novel a powerful choice.” – Essence for Where the Line Bleeds
“A richly textured tale…like the best fiction, it creates its own world.” – Susan Larson, N.O. Times-Picayune for Where the Line Bleeds
“A remarkable first novel…a lyrical, clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality that are rarely depicted.” – Boston Globe for Where the Line Bleeds
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