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Let Us Descend

Name: Let Us Descend
Brand: Thorndike Press
SKU: 9798885792592
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Contributors:

Jesmyn Ward

Publisher:

Thorndike Press

Binding:

Library Binding

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Historical, Literary, African American & Black

Book Topic:

Historical

Award:

2023 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award, 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist - Fiction Award

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Release Date:

2023-10-25

ISBN 13:

9798885792592

Weight:

1.05 lbs

Size:

8.72 x 5.55 x 0.58 inches

Pages:

363

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From Jesmyn Ward--the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow--comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.

"'Let us descend, ' the poet now began, 'and enter this blind world.'" -- Inferno, Dante Alighieri

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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