Ward also edited the anthology The Fire This Time – a collection of contemporary essays and poems about race – and penned the devastating memoir Men We Reaped. Centering the stories of historically marginalized Black communities as they reckon with the violence of racism and living in American poverty, she is the author of three novels – Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing. The first woman and first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fiction, Mississisippi native Jesmyn Ward‘s work examines the bonds of familial love amid the legacy of slavery and segregation in the rural South.
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