Format:
Book
Author:
Ward, Jesmyn, author.
Title:
Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
©2011
Description:
271 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Subjects:
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.) -- Fiction.
Notes:
Includes reading group guide.
Includes Q & A with the author.
National Book Award Winner for Fiction, 2011.
ISBN:
9781608196265 (softcover)
1608196267 (softcover)
Other Number:
790128611
System Availability:
11
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3120636
Call Number:
813/.6
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
10