Salvage the Bones

  • Salvage the Bones
    By Jesmyn Ward

    As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up ...

  • Salvage the Bones: A Novel
    By Jesmyn Ward

    Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a ...

  • Salvage the Bones: A Novel
    By Jesmyn Ward

    wet back looks like pudding. Inside the car, Big Henry and I sit with the doors open, one leg out, heads back. ... I pull my hair back, tie it by taking a tendril of hair from the bottom and knotting it around the rest.

  • Salvage the Bones
    By Jesmyn Ward

    As the novel progresses through twelve dramatic days, 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. ...

  • Salvage the Bones: A Novel
    By Jesmyn Ward

    Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's ...

  • Salvage the Bones: A Novel

    Salvage the Bones: A Novel