Men We Reaped - Softcover

Jesmyn Ward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408898721 ISBN 13: 9781408898727

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur 'Genius' Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the first female author to win two National Book Awards for Fiction, for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) - which was also shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (2018) - and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time, the author of the memoir Men We Reaped and the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi. @jesmimi

Review:

A brutal, moving memoir ... Anyone who emerges from America's black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward's deserves a hearing * Guardian * When I first read her memoir, Men We Reaped - about five young black men, all of whom died within a span of four years of four years in her life - I understood the weight of grief as one struggles to live ... She is a modern-day William Faulkner, painting tapestries of an America that has not been heard -- Lee Daniels, Oscar-nominated director and producer Raw, beautiful and dangerous ... Ward's singular voice and her full embrace of her anger and sorrow set this work apart from those that have trodden similar ground * New York Times Book Review * Acute and often beautiful * Financial Times * Haunting -- Laurie Penny * New Statesman Books of the Year * Elegiac, rage-filled, and uncommonly brave * Vogue * A brilliant book about beauty and death ... Ward is one of those rare writers who's traveled across America's deepening class rift with her sense of truth intact * Los Angeles Times * An important, and perhaps even essential, book * San Francisco Chronicle * Lavishly endowed with literary craft and hard-earned wisdom * Time * A memoir about loss in rural Mississippi that burns with brilliance * Harper's Bazaar * A lovely book about stuff so painful that Ward must have written it in a kind of fever ... The final chapters are so moving that you have to avert your eyes, both for the trauma and the tenderness * Entertainment Weekly * A memoir that, in plainsong prose punctuated with sudden poetic flashes, schools us in the unforgiving experiences from which [Ward] has drawn her triumphal fiction . . . Unvarnished and penetrating * Elle *

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1408898721
• ISBN 13: 9781408898727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272