{"product_id":"men-we-reaped-9781408898727","title":"Men We Reaped","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A brutal, moving memoir  Anyone who emerges from America's black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward's deserves a hearing''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Raw, beautiful and dangerous'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Lavishly endowed with literary craft and hard-earned wisdom'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beautiful, haunting memoir from Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e''And then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped'' - Harriet Tubman\u003c\/i\u003eJesmyn Ward's acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young black men dear to her, including her beloved brother  to accidents, murder and suicide. Their deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their live\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ebrutal, moving\u003c\/b\u003e memoir … Anyone who emerges from America’s black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward’s deserves a hearing * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eWhen I first read her memoir, \u003ci\u003eMen We Reaped\u003c\/i\u003e – about five young black men, all of whom died within a span of four years of four years in her life – \u003cb\u003eI understood the weight of grief as one struggles to live \u003c\/b\u003e...\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eShe is a modern-day William Faulkner, \u003cb\u003epainting tapestries of an America that has not been heard\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lee Daniels, Oscar-nominated director and producer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaw, beautiful and dangerous\u003c\/b\u003e ... Ward's singular voice and her full embrace of her anger and sorrow set this work apart from those that have trodden similar ground * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcute and often beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaunting\u003c\/b\u003e -- Laurie Penny * New Statesman Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElegiac, rage-filled, and uncommonly brave\u003c\/b\u003e * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ebrilliant book about beauty and death\u003c\/b\u003e ... Ward is one of those rare writers who’s traveled across America’s deepening class rift with her sense of truth intact * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn important, and \u003cb\u003eperhaps even essential\u003c\/b\u003e, book * San Francisco Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eLavishly endowed with \u003cb\u003eliterary craft and hard-earned wisdom\u003c\/b\u003e * Time *\u003cbr\u003eA memoir about loss in rural Mississippi that \u003cb\u003eburns with brilliance\u003c\/b\u003e * Harper's Bazaar *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003elovely book \u003c\/b\u003eabout stuff so painful that Ward must have written it in a kind of fever ... The final chapters are so moving that you have to avert your eyes, both for the \u003cb\u003etrauma and the tenderness\u003c\/b\u003e * Entertainment Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA memoir that, in plainsong prose punctuated with sudden poetic flashes, schools us in the unforgiving experiences from which [Ward] has drawn her triumphal fiction . . . Unvarnished and penetrating * Elle *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866828714327,"sku":"9781408898727","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408898727.jpg?v=1722280182","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/men-we-reaped-9781408898727","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}