Let us descend
Ward, Jesmyn2024
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'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.
Main title:
Let us descend / Jesmyn Ward.
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Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Collation:
304 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.
ISBN:
9781526666765 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2904486