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Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Ward, Jesmyn, (author.).

Summary:

In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982104498 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 305 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.

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General Note:
"Oprah's book club 2023"--Dust jacket.

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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.
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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