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245 10 a| Men we reaped :b| a memoir /c| Jesmyn Ward.;

250 a| First U.S. edition.;

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505 0 a| We are in Wolf Town -- Roger Eric Daniels III -- We are born -- Demond Cook -- We are wounded -- Charles Joseph Martin -- We are watching -- Ronald Wayne Lizana -- We are learning -- Joshua Adam Dedeaux -- We are here.;

520 a| A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.;

520 a| In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life: to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.;

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Men we reaped : a memoir / Jesmyn Ward.

Author/creator	Ward, Jesmyn author.
Format	Book
Edition	First U.S. edition.
Publication	New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Copyright Date	©2013
Description	256 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Ward, Jesmyn. African American women authors--Biography. Rural poor--Mississippi. --Biography. African American men--Mississippi.

Contents	We are in Wolf Town -- Roger Eric Daniels III -- We are born -- Demond Cook -- We are wounded -- Charles Joseph Martin -- We are watching -- Ronald Wayne Lizana -- We are learning -- Joshua Adam Dedeaux -- We are here.
Abstract	A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.
Abstract	In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life: to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.
LCCN	2013013600
ISBN	9781608195213 (hardcover)
ISBN	160819521X (hardcover)

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