Salvage the bones, a novel, Jesmyn Ward
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Classification
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Creator
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Subject
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- African American children -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Fiction
- Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- PLP + Women's History Month - Historical Fiction -- 2019.02
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Label
Salvage the bones, a novel, Jesmyn Ward
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
novels
Main title
Salvage the bones
Oclc number
790128611
Responsibility statement
Jesmyn Ward
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.3, 13, 152039.
Sub title
a novel
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
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