Let us descend, a novel, Jesmyn Ward
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Let us descend, a novel, Jesmyn Ward
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eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Let us descend
Oclc number
1402248702
Responsibility statement
Jesmyn Ward
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation." -- provided by publisher
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Let's descend
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- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- African American children -- Fiction
- Slaveholders -- Fiction
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Spirits -- Fiction
- Memory -- Fiction
- Enslaved women -- Fiction
- Louisiana -- Fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
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- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- African American children -- Fiction
- Slaveholders -- Fiction
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Spirits -- Fiction
- Memory -- Fiction
- Enslaved women -- Fiction
- Louisiana -- Fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
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- Author1
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