In the canon
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 2011
- Pages
- Pages 260
It begins under a house in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, with a white pit bull straining to deliver her first litter and the boy who loves her kneeling in the dirt to pull the puppies free. Ward counts out twelve days, one to a chapter, and at the end of them stands a hurricane named Katrina.
And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.
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