Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward by Jesmyn Ward, SuperSummary
Let us descend, the poet now began, and enter this blind world. Inferno, Dante Alighieri, Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation., Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the readers guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation., From one of the mos
General Fiction
Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward, SuperSummary
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults
Let us descend, the poet now began, and enter this blind world. Inferno, Dante Alighieri, Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation., Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the readers guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation., From one of the mos
