![]() ![]() ![]() She answered a few questions about Salvage the Bones via email. She has been a Stegner fellow and is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama. Ward won the 2011 National Book Award in fiction for Salvage the Bones. Esch thinks, “I wonder where the world where that day happened has gone, because we are not in it.” As much as you’ve read about Katrina, Ward’s account, through the eyes of Esch, leaves you absolutely wrecked. When the storm finally arrives, Ward drags you through twenty-four hours of utter terror. key.” Esch’s father tears down their chicken coop for wood to board up the windows, but the dimensions are off a sliver of each window remains exposed. A static-choked weather report says “preparation. All the while, the family slowly gathers itself for Katrina. Early on, you find out that Esch is pregnant by her brother’s friend Manny, who won’t even look her in the eye. Ward takes readers through the training, posturing, and blood as Skeetah preps China, who is “one great tooth,” for a big fight. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, her second novel, is a tense build up to Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as experienced by the family of fifteen year-old Esch, her three brothers, their father, and her brother Skeetah’s prize-fighting pit-bull, China. ![]()
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