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Winner · National Book Awards 2011

Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward

2011 novel by Jesmyn Ward

Language
English
Pages
275
ISBN
9781408841310
Subjects
Brothers and sisters, African American teenage girls, Motherless families, African American families, African American children, Fiction, Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Rural poor

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