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I'm finding it hard to articulate my feelings about this book. It's horrible and beautiful at the same time. Jesmyn Ward is a stunning wordsmith, presenting her memories of growing up in rural Mississippi with clarity and realness while conveying tragic loss of life and debilitating circumstances without self-pity but sorrow and anger. By telling the stories of her family and friends, Ward also raises essential questions about race and racism, gender norms and gendered racism, poverty and privil
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Everyone told me this book was beautiful and gutting but I still wasn't prepared for Ward's incredible memoir. I'd planned to read for just a half hour or so and found myself unable to break away from her story of grief and race, the south and home, growing up and forming connections in the world. While this is, absolutely, a book about several men in Ward's life that died between 200-2004, it's also a memoir of female survival. It's as. Much about losing men as it is about becoming a woman left
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This was such a good book! I recommend it!
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it was amazing
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