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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn WardTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, & the risk of being a black man in the rural South.
“We saw the lightning & that was the guns; & then we heard the thunder & that was the big guns; & then we heard the rain falling & that was the blood falling; & when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.” — Harriet Tubman
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life-to drugs, accidents, suicide, & 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-and it took her breath away. Her brother & her friends all died because of who they were & where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism & economic struggle that fostered drug addiction & the dissolution of family & relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories & her own.
Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right & the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother & her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home & pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides & the intimacy of utter familiarity. A brutal world rendered beautifully, Jesmyn Ward's memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying,
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