Novelist and memoirist
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward’s fiction and nonfiction return to Black family and community life in Mississippi. Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing both received the National Book Award for Fiction.
On the shelves
Books in the collection
Memoir
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward
Ward links the deaths of five men she knew to the pressures shaping life in her Mississippi community.
Fiction
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
A family in coastal Mississippi prepares for Katrina as a teenage narrator pieces together what it means to care for others.
Fiction
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
A Mississippi family road trip brings the living into contact with histories that refuse to stay buried.