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Bookmark or Share- The Spirits of Let Us Descend, Explained - Oprah DailyIn Oprah’s 103rd Book Club pick, "Let Us Descend," author Jesmyn Ward reimagines what divinity can look like—and what it can accomplish.
- Let Us Descend: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2023) Hardcover ...From “one of America’s finest living writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub)—comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that’s destined to become a classic.
- Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward - GoodreadsFrom Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. “‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’”
- Summary and Reviews of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward - BookBrowseLet Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
- Let Us Descend | Book by Jesmyn Ward | Official Publisher ...“‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’”—Inferno, Dante Alighieri Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward stuns in a new lyrical novel about an enslaved girl who must walk on foot from North Carolina to New Orleans.
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