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Whenever my mother drove us from coastal Mississippi to New Orleans to visit my father on the weekend, she would say, “Lock the doors.”

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward

July 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Nostalgia Men We Reaped: 5/5 Stars I can’t say I am nostalgic here, as I can’t imagine a childhood and teenage in America much different from mine, but I am about the age of Jesmyn Ward’s brother Joshua (and some of the other men and boys mentioned in this book), so it provides an interesting contrast to say the least. This 2013 memoir comes at the heels of Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award winning novel Salvage the Bones and right before her second National […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped, navigate your stars, nostalgia

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:393 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr12bingo, Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped, navigate your stars, nostalgia ·
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We Are Losing Them

May 19, 2015 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My life growing up was, in many ways, very different from the people who populate my adult life. I find myself looking around often and saying “but why don’t you understand _____________?” I grew up in a very diverse area and my experiences and knowledge reflect that diversity. But it’s fair to say that my expanded viewpoint is only expanded to a certain extent because I still view life from a place of white, middle class privilege. But the high school that I attended started […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, faintingviolet, Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped

faintingviolet's CBR7 Review No:37 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, faintingviolet, Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped ·
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