Salvage the bones : a novel

Resource Information

The work Salvage the bones : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Salvage the bones : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Jesmyn Ward

Creator

• Ward, Jesmyn

Subject

• African American children
• African American children -- Fiction
• African American families
• African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
• African American teenage girls
• African American teenage girls -- Fiction
• Brothers and sisters
• Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction
• Hurricane Katrina (2005)
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
• 2005
• Mississippi -- Gulf Coast
• Motherless families
• Motherless families -- Fiction
• Novels
• PLP -- 21st Century African American Fiction -- 2019.01
• PLP -- Family Struggle -- 2018.10
• PLP -- Women's History Month - Historical Fiction -- 2019.02
• PLP -- Women's History Month -- Fiction -- 2018.03
• Rural poor
• Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
• Mississippi

Genre

• Fiction
• Novels
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

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

Awards note

National Book Award, Fiction, 2011.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Interest level

High School

LC call number

PS3623.A7323

LC item number

S36 2011

Literary form

novels

Reading level

5.7

Study program name

Reading Counts