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Author:

Ward, Jesmyn, author.

Title:

Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

271 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

African American children--Fiction.
African American teenage girls--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Motherless families--Fiction.
African American families--Mississippi--Fiction.
Rural poor--Mississippi--Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.)--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
Natural disasters--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
African American children.
African American families.
African American teenage girls.
Brothers and sisters.
Motherless families.
Rural poor.
Mississippi.
Mississippi--Gulf Coast.
Roman.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.
African American children--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Poor--Mississippi--Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.)--Fiction.
2005
Family--Fiction.
Miscellaneous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Survival stories.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Contents:

The first day : birth in a bare-bulb place -- The second day : hidden eggs -- The third day : sickness in the dirt -- The fourth day : worth stealing -- The fifth day : salvage the bones -- The sixth day : a steady hand -- The seventh day : game dogs and game men -- The eighth day : make them know -- The ninth day : hurricane eclipse -- The tenth day : in the endless eye -- The eleventh day : Katrina -- The twelfth day : alive.

Summary:

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 teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

ISBN:

1608196267
9781608196265
140882700X
9781408827000
1608195228
9781608195220

OCLC:

(OCoLC)694566457

LCCN:

2010053025

Locations:

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo) — Copies: 8 — Kit notes: +14LP+2AV