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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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