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Salvage the bones : a novel /

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Jesmyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
African American children > Fiction.
African American teenage girls > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Motherless families > Fiction.
African American families > Mississippi > Fiction.
Rural poor > Mississippi > Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Family life > Fiction.
Poor > Mississippi > Fiction.
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Summary:Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Physical Description:261 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9781608195220
1608195228