Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
By: Ward, Jesmyn
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TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2012Description: 271 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781608196265 (pbk); 1608196267.Subject(s): African American children -- Fiction | African American teenage girls -- Fiction | Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | Motherless families -- Fiction | African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction | Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction | Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction | Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.6 Awards: National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011.Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 813.6 W213 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003490844 |
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011.
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