Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Title: Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. Format: Book Author: Ward, Jesmyn, author. Publisher, Date: New York : Bloomsbury, 2012. ©2011 Copyright: ©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 Control Number: 3120636 Total Owned in SHARE 12 # Available: 12 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 0 # Local items in: 0 Course Reserves: 0 Request It Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Available? Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
