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Author:

Ward, Jesmyn, author.

Title:

Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Edition:

Large Print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

363 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Large type books.
Louisiana--Fiction.
Slaveholders--United States--Fiction.
Girls, Black--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Spirits--Fiction.
Enslaved persons--Fiction.
Enslaved women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
African American children--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.
Large print books.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Thorndike Press Large print top shelf

ISBN:

9798885792592

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1395910199

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

YLPC314 -- Cascade Public Library (Cascade)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

HHPC765 -- Laurens Public Library (Laurens)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

EWPB745 -- Ruthven Public Library (Ruthven)

RFPC397 -- Stuart Public Library (Stuart)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)