Let us descend [large print] : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.
Record details
- ISBN: 9798885792592
- ISBN: 9781420516562
- Physical Description: 363 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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| Swansboro Branch Library | LP FIC WARD (Text) | 36015000433124 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | LP Ward (Text) | 31010000838336 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
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| Benhaven Public Library | LgPrt F War (Text) | 33630005345553 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Cliffdale Library | LP WARD (Text) | 31781068159225 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
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