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Men We Reaped (Hardcover)
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Men We Reaped (Hardcover)
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Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle AwardNominee for the
Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardA "New York Times" Notable Book ""We saw
the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder
and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and
that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops,
it was dead men that we reaped." --Harriet Tubman
"In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to
drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people
who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these
losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And
as she began to write about the experience of living through all
the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her
brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where
they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and
economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution
of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious
she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she
knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories
and her own.
Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes
powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do
no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where
the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting
the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the
sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher
education, she writes about this parallel American universe with
the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter
familiarity. A brutal world rendered beautifully, Jesmyn Ward's
memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat's "Brother,
I'm Dying," Tobias Wolff's "This Boy's Life," and Maya Angelou's" I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
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