Jesmyn Ward

Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.
"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling...

Tierna, humana y rebosante de crudeza y esperanza, Jesmyn Ward nos regala esta magnífica novela premiada con el National Book Award 2011.



Es temporada de huracanes en el golfo de México. Una gran tormenta se aproxima peligrosamente al pueblo costero de Bois Sauvage, Misisipi. Esch y sus tres hermanos malviven en una casa a la que llaman el Hoyo, en el bosque entre coches abandonados y gallinas, y tienen otras preocupaciones...

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew,"...