Men We Reaped

"We saw thunder, it was a gun, then we listened to the thunder, it was a big gun, then we heard rain and blood come down When we came to the harvest , It was the dead we harvested. "- Harriet Tabman

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young people in life - drugs that can be tracked, accidents, suicide, and unlucky ... Read more

"The man we harvested" is a book about scars. The title is from Harriet Tubman. ("We are dead harvest when we heard that it was bleeding, when the rain heard fall, when we came to the crop.") Mr. Ward's theme looks like the southern part of the modern black US It is something. On the surface, her memoirs concern the lives of five young people, each of whom is familiar, including their young brothers. One is suicide, others are killed by drugs and accidents. Mr. Ward may talk about all these when writing articles.

Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reped is a story about both. Men We Reaped released in 2013 is Ward's third book. (Her second, Salvage the Bones received the National Book Award in 2011.) It was a memoir of Word's own life, but RaaPedd focused on the man she lost . The title comes from Harriet Tubman. "We heard the rain falling and the blood fell, when we arrived at the crop, we harvested the dead." Including her brothers - the word grew in four years, loved, And it looked dead. But it is far beyond this. "The man we harvested", as the word said, the story of these five young people.

In 2013, Ward announced a memoir "Harvested Man" that detailed the death of five beloved young people, including her brothers. She speaks the story in reverse chronological order, and the boy is miserable; it feels like a terrible detective story: how did this happen and who should be condemned? On the surface, the loss is irrelevant - car accidents, suicide, unnecessary murder - but each seems to come from the same cause under the sad eyes of the word. There is nothing in a bigger society that can protect these poor southern black children.

Jesmyn Ward recorded our American story with primitive, beautiful and dangerous words. Her novel "The Salvage Bones" won the National Book Award and claims that the Gulf is her literary field, but with the people we harvested, this area insisted on exchanging her It is clear. In addition to those who have already walked on the ground she also fully accepts her set of anger and sorrow. In this memoir of ghosts she experienced in her hometown of Mississippi, Ward (Bone Relief), who received two novelists and the National Book Award, was meticulously miserable opportunities, a lack of education and a shadow of cyclical poverty Pay attention to. Young, vulnerable African American Delisle, Miss. Reminiscent of the imaginary role of Ward in Bois Sauvage