Let Us Descend (Oprah's Book Club) -- Jesmyn Ward, Hardcover Claud Track: 14 - How F***ing

Track: 14 - How F***ing Romantic

secretly keeps a journal recounting what she remembers--and revealing just what she has forgotten

Library Journal 04/15/2006 pg

even if we're too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice

she has only been a shadow of herself

Let Us Descend (Oprah's Book Club) -- Jesmyn Ward, Hardcover Claud Track: 14 - How F***ingFrom Jesmyn Ward the two time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. "'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