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Also by Jesmyn Ward:

Let Us Descend, October 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Men We Reaped, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Salvage The Bones, September 2011
Hardcover

Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward

Oprah Pick

Scribner
October 2023
On Sale: October 3, 2023
Featuring: Annis
320 pages
ISBN: 198210449X
EAN: 9781982104498
Kindle: B0BT5S2VSS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Multicultural African-American | Historical

Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.

Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.

From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.

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Re: Let Us Descend

Good to see your post.
(Nirali Grewal 6:05am January 5)

Great story
(Kelvin Peter 9:55am January 8)