Let us descend : a novel /
Ward, Jesmyn,
Let us descend : a novel / - First Scribner hardcover edition. - 305 pages ; 22 cm
"Let 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. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation." -- provided by publisher.
9781982104498 198210449X
bl2023169576
Enslaved women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
PS3623.A7323 / L48 2023
813/.6
Let us descend : a novel / - First Scribner hardcover edition. - 305 pages ; 22 cm
"Let 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. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation." -- provided by publisher.
9781982104498 198210449X
bl2023169576
Enslaved women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
PS3623.A7323 / L48 2023
813/.6