Author
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is the American novelist and memoirist behind Salvage the Bones (2011, National Book Award), Sing Unburied Sing (2017, National Book Award), Let Us Descend (2023), and the memoir Men We Reaped (2013). Ward is the only female writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice.
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2
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2
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Years active
2017-2023
Reviewed
Our reviews of Jesmyn Ward's work
Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward 2023 review. An enslaved teenage girl walks from a Carolina rice plantation to the New Orleans slave market. Ward's structural follow-up to Sing Unburied Sing.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 2017 review. A thirteen-year-old biracial boy and his drug-addicted mother drive to Parchman Penitentiary. National Book Award winner.
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What we have said about Jesmyn Ward
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward 2023 review. An enslaved teenage girl walks from a Carolina rice plantation to the New Orleans slave market. Ward's structural follow-up to Sing Unburied Sing.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 2017 review. A thirteen-year-old biracial boy and his drug-addicted mother drive to Parchman Penitentiary. National Book Award winner.