![]() ![]() It is also the story of the heroic stand the family makes against the traumatic thing itself. Ward's novel, a 2011 National Book Award winner and the 2016 Memphis Reads selection, describes the days leading up to the deadly hurricane for a broken family living on the remote edge of a town called Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. ![]() 'Narrative ruthlessness' is what she calls her gift for creating visceral fiction from her own experiences. Her father and brother raised and sometimes fought pit bulls, and as a child she saved her own life by repeatedly punching one as it attacked her. She and her family watched from a truck in a field as the Category 5 storm devastated her area of coastal Mississippi in 2005. When Jesmyn Ward writes in 'Salvage the Bones' about the cruelty of Hurricane Katrina or the terror of a pit-bull fight, she's not relying solely on imagination. ![]() Jesmyn Ward is the author of 'Salvage the Bones,' this year's Memphis Reads title. ![]()
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