When the storm finally arrives, Ward drags you through twenty-four hours of utter terror. key.” Esch’s father tears down their chicken coop for wood to board up the windows, but the dimensions are off a sliver of each window remains exposed. A static-choked weather report says “preparation. All the while, the family slowly gathers itself for Katrina. Early on, you find out that Esch is pregnant by her brother’s friend Manny, who won’t even look her in the eye. Ward takes readers through the training, posturing, and blood as Skeetah preps China, who is “one great tooth,” for a big fight. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, her second novel, is a tense build up to Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as experienced by the family of fifteen year-old Esch, her three brothers, their father, and her brother Skeetah’s prize-fighting pit-bull, China.
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