~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction - 2011, ALA Alex Award - 2012
Salvage the Bones is the depiction of the indomitable spirit of a dirt-poor family (that has lived in poverty and squalor for generations) to survive, against all the odds, amid the destructive and devastating monster of nature that is Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc on the Mississippi coastline.
A wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bone is an emotionally visceral powerhouse muscled with poetry, both revelatory, and real.
"Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music and plays deftly with her reader’s expectations in a taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written. It feels fresh and urgent, but it's an ancient, archetypal tale" --New York Times Book Review