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 reader’s 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 take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is a story of rebirth .
From one of the singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.
作者简介
杰丝米妮·瓦德在密歇根大学获得艺术硕士学位,曾获得麦克阿瑟天才奖、斯泰格纳奖学金、约翰和蕾妮-格里沙姆作家驻地奖、施特劳斯生活奖以及 2022 年美国国会图书馆美国小说奖。她曾凭借《歌唱,不埋没,歌唱》(2017 年)和《打捞骨头》(2011 年)两次获得美国国家图书奖小说奖。她还著有长篇小说《界限流血之处》(Where the Line Bleeds)和回忆录《我们收获的男人》(Men We Reaped),后者曾入围美国国家书评人协会奖决赛,并获得《芝加哥论坛报》"心脏地带奖"(Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize)和 "公正社会媒体奖"(Media for a Just Society Award)。她现任杜兰大学创意写作教授,居住在密西西比州。
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.
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