“Salvage the Bones” comes to us as a highly unlikely debut work of fiction from Jesmyn Ward. It combines deepest family devotion with rancorous feud, petty self-absorption with timeless love, minor quotidian problem with once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe. There is heroism here, great love, stunning, thought-provoking symbolism, and an uncountable string of apt metaphors for everything from the sound of someone eating a cracker to the tumultuous sky during Hurricane Katrina. Through it all, our fifteen-year-old,...
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