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See the full Salvage the Bones reading order for all books in the series.

About Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones (2011) follows the Batiste family — a poor Black family in rural Mississippi — over the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, as fifteen-year-old narrator Esch, who is secretly pregnant, watches her father and brothers prepare for the storm with whatever they have. Winner of the National Book Award.

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