Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward • 2011
Devastation Rating
race hurricane poverty Mississippi
Our Take
Ward gives you twelve days in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi before Hurricane Katrina — a Black family, a litter of puppies, a teenage girl's pregnancy, and the slow approach of disaster. The storm is also poverty, also race, also the government's relationship to Black bodies. Nothing is salvaged without cost.
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