Salvage the bones : a novel /

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Author / Creator:Ward, Jesmyn.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Imprint:New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011.
Description:261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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.
African American children -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
African American children.
African American families.
African American teenage girls.
Brothers and sisters.
Motherless families.
Rural poor.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
Mississippi.
Mississippi -- Gulf Coast.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8532378
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ISBN:9781608195220
1608195228
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.