by Jesmyn Ward
““Skeetah slices at the stomach, and what comes sliding out is blue and purple, like so much wet yarn.”
“Skeetah slices at the stomach, and what comes sliding out is blue and purple, like so much wet yarn.”
““We took the back way to the hospital, through miles of woods, lonely houses like possums in the dark, half caught then left behind by the headlights.”
“We took the back way to the hospital, through miles of woods, lonely houses like possums in the dark, half caught then left behind by the headlights.”
““I lay for so long that when I raise my head from my arm, my hair has marked cursive I can't read into my skin.”
“I lay for so long that when I raise my head from my arm, my hair has marked cursive I can't read into my skin.”
““The wild things of Bois Sauvage ignore them; we are left to seed another year.”
“The wild things of Bois Sauvage ignore them; we are left to seed another year.”
Set in the lowlands of Mississippi in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, Salvage the Bones is narrated by Esch, the high-school age, mytholo...
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