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Salvage the bones : a novel

Author: Jesmyn Ward
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781608195220 1608195228 9781408827000 140882700X
OCLC Number: 694566457
Awards: National Book Award, Fiction, 2011.
Description: 261 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Jesmyn Ward.
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