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Let us descend : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION WARD (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Scribner, 2023.
Physical Description
305 pages ; 22 cm
Series
Summary
"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.
Notes
Series information from jacket.
Subjects
- Enslaved women > Fiction.
- Enslaved persons > Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
- Racially mixed people > Fiction.
- Slavery > United States > Fiction.
- Slaveholders > United States > Fiction.
- Girls, Black > Fiction.
- Memory > Fiction.
- Spirits > Fiction.
- African American families > Fiction.
- African American children > Fiction.
- Louisiana > Fiction.