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Author Ward, Jesmyn.

Title Salvage the bones / Jesmyn Ward.

Publisher New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011.
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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Camden PL Fiction  F War    AVAILABLE  
 Auburn PL Fiction  FIC Ward, J.    AVAILABLE  
 Bailey Fiction  WARD    AVAILABLE  
 Belfast General Fiction  FIC WAR    AVAILABLE  
 Curtis ML Adult Fiction  FIC Ward J    AVAILABLE  
 Ellsworth PL Fiction  F War 11/11    AVAILABLE  
 Falmouth ML Fiction  F Ward    AVAILABLE  
 Freeport Fiction  FIC War    AVAILABLE  
 Friend Memorial Library Adult Fiction  F WAR    AVAILABLE  
 Gardiner PL Adult Fiction  F WARD    AVAILABLE  

Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Physical Description 261 p. ; 22 cm.
Note A novel.
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.
Note National Book Award, 2011.
Subject African American children -- Fiction.
African American teenage girls -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Motherless families -- Fiction.
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
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