Jesmyn Ward's 'Salvage the Bones' is a powerful and heartbreaking novel set in rural Mississippi in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. It follows the story of a poor African-American family as they struggle to survive the storm and
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Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.