Men We Reaped: A Memoir -- Jesmyn Ward, Paperback
Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 09/16/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781608197651
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/12/2014 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 10/24/2014 pg. 69
Christian Century 12/09/2015 pg. 25
About the Author
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.
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