Book for Reading Let Us Descend Book by Jesmyn Ward
“Let Us Descend” is an absolutely beautiful reimagining of American slavery.
From rural Carolina to the slave markets of New Orleans to the terrifying heart of Louisiana's sugar plantations.
She was sold to the South by the white slave traders who gave birth to her, and Ennis becomes the reader's guide through this hell. As she struggles through her mile-long walk, Ennis turns inward and seeks solace in memories of her mother and the stories of her grandmother, an African warrior. The book is the story of land and water, of myth and history, of the spirits that nourish and give, of the spirits that manipulate and take. Ward leads the reader through maturity, but this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and renewal.
This miraculous novel charts the sorrows and joys of black America in the land itself—the forests, swamps, and rich but unforgiving rivers of the American South. Let's Get Down is Jesmyn Ward's most epic novel of all time.
Two-time National Book Award winner, youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Fiction Prize, and MacArthur Fellow, Jesmyn Ward has released a masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the antebellum Civil War that is sure to become an instant classic.
“Let us descend and enter this blind world.” Dante Alighieri
Book to Read Let Us Descend Book by Jesmyn Ward
