The latest novel from the two-time National Book Award-winner, about an enslaved Black girl in the American South, is thick with ghosts, history and searing poetry.
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.'Let Us Descend' , the latest novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward, is thick with ghosts, history and searing poetry, in its dramatic story about an enslaved Black girl in the American South, a descendant of a warrior in Africa.Read an excerpt below. 'Let Us Descend' by Jesmyn WardPrefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now.
' I missed it, and the jagged staff clattered to the ground. I picked it up and held it so tight the knobs from her hewing cut, and then my mother bought her own dark limb down. She had never struck me before, not with her hands, not with wood. Pain burned my shoulder, then lanced through the other. 'This one,' she grunted, her voice low under her weapon's whistling, 'was my mama's.' Her spear was a black whip in the night. I fell.
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