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Let us descend [sound recording] : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Ward, Jesmyn, (author,, narrator.). Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm), (publisher.).

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: 9781797161501
  • Physical Description: 7 audio discs (8 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact discs.
Title from container.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by the author.
Subject: Enslaved women > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
Slavery > United States > Fiction.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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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 winner—first woman and first Black American—of 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.


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