Salvage the Bones
id:
salvage-the-bones-174-7998637
title:
Salvage the Bones
text:
Salvage the Bones is the second novel by American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Bloomsbury in 2011. The novel explores the plight of a working-class African-American family in Mississippi as they prepare for Hurricane Katrina and follows them through the aftermath of the storm. Ward, who lived through Katrina, wrote the novel, after being very "dissatisfied with the way Katrina had receded from public consciousness". The novel was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction.
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
2011 novel by Jesmyn Ward
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_the_Bones
date created:
2016-03-29T02:53:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T21:20:19Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q24037621","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24037621"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15