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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ward, Jesmyn, author.     Subjects     Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.     Girls, Black -- Fiction.     Memory -- Fiction.     Spirits -- Fiction.     Enslaved women -- Fiction.     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.     African American families -- Fiction.     African American children -- Fiction.     Racially mixed people -- Fiction.     Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.     Louisiana -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ward, Jesmyn, author.       by title:      Let us descend [larg...         MARC Display

Let us descend [large type] : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. by Ward, Jesmyn, author. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023. Subjects Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.   Girls, Black -- Fiction.   Memory -- Fiction.   Spirits -- Fiction.   Enslaved women -- Fiction.   Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.   African American families -- Fiction.   African American children -- Fiction.   Racially mixed people -- Fiction.   Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.   Louisiana -- Fiction. ISBN:  9798885792592 (large print ; hardcover) Series:  Thorndike Press large print top shelf. Description:  363 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. Edition:  Large print edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take"--Back cover.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Manoa Public Library Large Type LT Ward Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Large Type LT Ward Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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