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Title:
Salvage the bones : a novel
Author:
Ward, Jesmyn.
Format:
Book
ISBN:
9781608195220
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011.
Subject Term:
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.

Siblings -- Fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.

Poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
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.