![]() ![]() ![]() Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. "I've just read, and it'll be a long time before its magic wears off. Reviews About the Author Reviews Praise for Salvage the Bones A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.Īs the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family-motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day. ![]() Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets she's fourteen and pregnant. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. ![]() Media Issues, Communication & JournalismĪ New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award FinalistĪ Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the YearĪ hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned.Computer Science & Information Technology. ![]()
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