Men We Reaped - A Memoir

Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.

About the author

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.

Product details

• Authors: Jesmyn Ward, Ward Jesmyn
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9781608197651
• ISBN: 978-1-60819-765-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Mississippi, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Relating to African American / Black American people