Men We Reaped (Thorndike African-American)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1410462501 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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of Mississippi. of Michigan and has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence at the Univ. of South Alabama. . She received her MFA from the Univ. She is the author of the novels "Where the Line Bleeds" and" Salvage the Bones," for which she won the 2011 National Book Award, and was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Literary Award and
--Vanessa Bush . She herself had partially escaped, going on to college in Michigan and California; but the pull of close family ties and a deep appreciation of southern culture lured her back each summer. This is beautifully written homage, with a pathos and understanding that come from being a part of the culture described. Ward, author of Salvage the Bones (2011), lovingly profiles each of those she lost, including a brother, a cousin, and close friends, and their tragic ends as she weaves her family histo
Enlightening Silver's Reviews 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 very eloquent. Jesmyn had to suffer through a premature birth, a father who wasn't true to her mother, a dog mauling, poverty, drugs, drinking, and deaths of loved ones.The book was enlightening as well as heartbreakin. "A real eye-opener." according to Sonja. This is a book all white people should read. The author tells about young black men in her life who died way too early and pretty much sums up the reason why - born into poverty, not encouraged in school nor given a proper education, always put down by police and others, not given chances in life that white boys receive. Really, we should be ashamed of ourselves in the US for allowing this kind of discrimination to keep on happening. We haven't learned very much since the days of slavery. Something has to ch. This book is not to be missed! It will This book is not to be missed! It will make you cry it so lovingly conveys the grief, anger, pain and ache of loosing to death people too young to die; those placed at risk through a combination of their own emotional make-up, lack of opportunity, and the oppression of racism / classism that keeps people down in this country.
A brutal world rendered beautifully, Jesmyn Ward's memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying," Tobias Wolff's "This Boy's Life," and Maya Angelou's" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.". Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. ""We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." --Harriet Tubman"In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. As the sole member of her family to le