Men We Reaped - A Memoir

'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 Jesmyn Ward's acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young black men dear to her, including her beloved brother - to accidents, murder and suicide. Their deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their lives had been connected by identity and place. As Jesmyn dealt with these losses, she came to a staggering truth: the fates of these young men were predetermined by who they were and where they were from, because racism and economic struggle breed a certain kind of bad luck. The agonising reality brought Jesmyn to write, at last, their true stories and her own.

Product details

• Authors: Jesmyn Ward, Ward Jesmyn
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781408898727
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-9872-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Mississippi, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Relating to African American / Black American people