Men we reaped : a memoir / Jesmyn Ward.
2013
PS3623.A7323 Z46 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Men we reaped : a memoir / Jesmyn Ward.
Author
Ward, Jesmyn.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9781608195213 hardcover
160819521X hardcover
160819521X hardcover
Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Language
English
Description
258 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS3623.A7323 Z46 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6 B
Summary
A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life: to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life: to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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We are here.
Roger Eric Daniels III
We are born
Demond Cook
We are wounded
Charles Joseph Martin
We are watching
Ronald Wayne Lizana
We are learning
Joshua Adam Dedeaux
We are here.