Book
Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982104498 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 305 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Oprah's book club 2023"--Dust jacket. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Enslaved women > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Racially mixed people > Fiction. Slavery > United States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Ward | 31681010346252 | FICTION | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | FIC Ward | 31681010346245 | FICTION | Available | - |
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winnerâfirst woman and first Black Americanâof two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.
