Salvage the Bones. Jesmyn Ward. Bloomsbury USA, 2011. First edition. Original dust jacket. &
Salvage the Bones. Jesmyn Ward. Bloomsbury USA, 2011. First edition. Original dust jacket.“Mama gave birth in the house she bore all of us in, here in this gap in the woods her father cleared and built on that we now call the Pit. Me, the only girl and the youngest at eight, was of no help, although Daddy said she told him she didn’t need any help. Daddy said that Randall and Skeetah and me came fast, that Mama had all of us in her bed, under her own bare burning bulb, so when it was time for Junior, she thought she could do the same. It didn’t work that way. Mama squatted, screamed toward the end. Junior came out purple and blue as a hydrangea: Mama’s last flower.” -- source link
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