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Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

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#2179 of 3,809 books · #783 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2013).

Men We Reaped won the National Book Award twice. Jesmyn Ward's acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young black men dear to her, including her beloved brother – to accidents, murder and suicide. Their deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their lives had been connected by identity and place. As Jesmyn dealt with these losses, she came to a staggering truth: the fates of these young men were predetermined by who they were and where they were from, because racism and economic struggle breed a certain kind of bad luck. The agonising reality brought Jesmyn to write, at last, their true stories and her own.

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Publisher
A&C Black
ISBN-13
9781408841884
Topics
Race and racismGrief and lossPoverty in the American South

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