One of six books she recommended at The Week magazine:
Read about another entry on the list.Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011).
Ward is, simply put, a legend in the making. This story haunts me, illustrating how the fierceness of family can be both tender and as destructive as the storm — Hurricane Katrina — that provides the novel's backdrop.
See: Four books that changed Jodi Picoult.
Salvage the Bones is among Peggy Frew's ten top books about "bad" mothers and Jenny Shanks's five least supervised children in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
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