Salvage the Bones : A Novel (Paperback)

from amyshaff

I had a hard time reading this book. I was waiting for Katrina to hit the coast but found the descriptions of the dog raising and dog fighting to be brutal subject matter and tough to get through. Despite my squeamishness, it's a powerful coming of age story about a pregnant teenager who discover...

from schufman

Reading this book felt like riding waves. The protagonist/narrator has a heart clenched tight around her family. Even as everything around her fails and lets her down, they are knit into her very existence. The narrow days are matching steadily toward a storm, literal and figurative, and she is c...

from browner56

For many of us who did not have the misfortune to live through Hurricane Katrina on a first-hand basis, the most indelible images of that disaster are of the havoc and heartbreak wrought on the city of New Orleans. In Salvage the Bones, however, author Jesmyn Ward reminds us that the scope of the...

from LoisII

Realistic portrayal of life in rural South. Poignant description of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and the survival of the inhabitants of Bois Sauvage. GOOD READ!

from fingerpost

I think this would easily go in my top ten books. The story is told by 15 year old Esch, the only girl in a dirt-poor family in coastal Mississippi. On day 1 of the story, her brother's pit bull China has puppies, and Esch discovers that she is pregnant. Over the course of the story one bad thing...