People, If you want happy endings, just read a fairytale. I loved the Medea ‘story with the story.’ Genius. A strong piece of fiction, based on a real story, is written to make you FEEL! When a black author can make me, a white middle-aged privileged female, weep in compassion and understanding, then her writing is phenomenal. I hope the author never gets to see them. I feel even more compelled to leave a review because of the very harsh and ‘pity party’ comments left here, which are not really reviews, just opinions.

Here I am two years later, leaving a review. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory and real. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.Īs the 12 days that make up the novel's framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets she's 14 and pregnant. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.Ī hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. Bloomsbury presents Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, read by January LaVoy.

Salvage the bones book review