{"product_id":"let-us-descend-jesmyn-ward-hardcover","title":"Let Us Descend (Oprah's Book Club) -- Jesmyn Ward, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Jesmyn Ward--the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow--comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"'Let us descend, ' the poet now began, 'and enter this blind world.'\" --\u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, Dante Alighieri \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnis, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land--the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. \u003ci\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/i\u003e is Jesmyn Ward's most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesmyn Ward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982104498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Kirkus Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner--first woman and first Black American--of two National Book Awards for Fiction for \u003ci\u003eSing, Unburied, Sing\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eSalvage the Bones\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). She is also the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eWhere the Line Bleeds\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eMen We Reaped\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jesmyn Ward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44338040996068,"sku":"9781982104498","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781982104498.jpg?v=1719463098","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/let-us-descend-jesmyn-ward-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}