Salvage the bones :

Ward, Jesmyn,

Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward - Paperback edition - 271 pages ; 21 cm

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

Wilson's Fiction, January 2012 Library Journal Starred, August 2011 Pub Weekly, May 2011 Booklist, August 2011 Kirkus Starred, December 2011 New York Times, January 2012 Wilson's Fiction Library Journal Starred Pub Weekly

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 love for each other will be their only hope for survival

Adult Follett Library Resources Adult

9781608195220 1608195228 9781608196265 1608196267

2010053025


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


Fiction.

PS3623.A7323 / S36 2012 PS3623.A7323 / S36 2012