by Jesmyn Ward
The most beautifully written, necessary knife to the gut.
Jesmyn Ward's heartbreaking memoir is about losing five young men close to her in the very short span of five years. It is a story of the tragedy resulting from who these young men were and where they were. It is a story of “how the history of racism and economic inequality and lapsed public and per...
"I knew the boys in my novel weren't as raw as they could be, weren't real. I knew they were failing as characters because I wasn't pushing them to assume the reality that my real-life boys, Demond among them, experienced every day. I loved them too much; as an author, I was a benevolent God. I prot...
An exquisitely written memoir, beautiful and heartbreaking.
MEN WE REAPED is very well written and in a style that feels as if the author is right there with you having a conversation. The prose is beautiful, and the descriptions are vivid and make the scenes come alive. The author revealed her life very eloquently even though her life growing up wasn't ver...
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