Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward

By: Ward, Jesmyn [author.]Material type: TextTextEdition: Paperback editionDescription: 271 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9781608195220; 1608195228; 9781608196265; 1608196267Subject(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.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Fiction. LOC classification: PS3623.A7323 | S36 2012PS3623.A7323 | S36 2012
Contents:
The first day : birth in a bare-bulb place -- The second day : hidden eggs -- The third day : sickness in the dirt -- The fourth day : worth stealing -- The fifth day : salvage the bones -- The sixth day : a steady hand -- The seventh day : game dogs and game men -- The eighth day : make them know -- The ninth day : hurricane eclipse -- The tenth day : in the endless eye -- The eleventh day : Katrina -- The twelfth day : alive
Summary: Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
FIC/WAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500060820

The first day : birth in a bare-bulb place -- The second day : hidden eggs -- The third day : sickness in the dirt -- The fourth day : worth stealing -- The fifth day : salvage the bones -- The sixth day : a steady hand -- The seventh day : game dogs and game men -- The eighth day : make them know -- The ninth day : hurricane eclipse -- The tenth day : in the endless eye -- The eleventh day : Katrina -- The twelfth day : alive

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Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival

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