The first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict--"a lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality t
This timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict is National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward's first novel and the first of three novels set in Bois Sauvage, followed by Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing.
Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. They've just finished high school and need to find jobs, but in a failing post-Katrina economy, it's not easy. Joshua gets work on the docks,...