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Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
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From 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.??Let us descend,? the poet now began, ?and enter this blind world.?? ? Inferno, Dante AlighieriLet 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
From 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.??Let us descend,? the poet now began, ?and enter this blind world.?? ? Inferno, Dante AlighieriLet 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
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