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LET US DESCEND - JESMYN WARD KARTONIERT (TB)

'Gripping  mythic  bone-pulverising ... A spectacular achievement' ANTHONY DOERR 'Jesmyn Ward
is one of the greatest writers of all time. And Let Us Descend  once again  proves it'
JACQUELINE WOODSON 'Transcendent ... The best book I've read in years' LOUISE KENNEDY 'Stunning
... Will grip you from the first word to the last' NATHAN HARRIS ----------------------- The
first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand. On a slave plantation in the Carolinas  Annis
has survived in the light of her mother's resilience  comforted by stories of her African
warrior grandmother. Everything she knows  she learned from her mother - how to fight  how to
be strong  how to grow up in a world shrouded in darkness. When she is sold south by the white
enslaver who fathered her  Annis must venture onward through the rich but unforgiving
landscapes of the American South alone: from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave
markets of New Orleans  and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Searching
for relief in memories of her mother  she opens herself to a world beyond her own  teeming with
spirits of earth  water  history and myth. A reimagining of American slavery as beautifully
rendered as it is heart-wrenching  Let Us Descend offers a magnificent portrait of the strength
of the human spirit and its ability to emerge from darkness into light. This is a story of
beauty  love  rebirth and reclamation - a masterwork for the ages. Praise for Sing  Unburied 
Sing 'A must' Margaret Atwood 'I am a huge fan of Jesmyn Ward's work  and this book proves that
she is one of the most important writers in America today' Ann Patchett 'Ward is a lyrical 
visceral storyteller' Daily Mail 'A visceral and intimate drama that plays out like a grand
epic . Staggering' Marlon James 'A searing  urgent read' Celeste Ng

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