![]() We see their efforts in fighting for themselves, and, when they can, caring for each other. They live a raw existence feeding off scraps in their poverty- stricken community. The children have been dealt tough cards from on- high. ![]() But even the hurricane’s threat offers little more than a menacing backdrop: the novel starts with the disaster 10 days away, and the siblings have concerns far more immediate. The all- powerful Hurricane Katrina is fast approaching the Mississippi Gulf town of Bois Sauvage, where our narrator, fifteen- year- old Esch, lives with her alcoholic father and three brothers. ![]() As you might expect, so follows a tale imbued with Biblical myth taking in life, death, suffering, and dashed with occasional light. With these words from Deuteronomy 32:39, Jesmyn Ward begins her highly impressive US National Book Award-winning novel Salvage the Bones. ‘I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any can deliver out of my hand’. Jim Morphy casts a critical eye over Salvage the Bones the latest novel from Jesmyn Ward. ![]()
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