| Description |
363 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print (16 point) rdafs |
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Thorndike Press large print top shelf.
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| Summary |
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. |
| Subject |
Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.
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Girls, Black -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Spirits -- Fiction.
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Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
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Enslaved women -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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African American families -- Fiction.
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African American children -- Fiction.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
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Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
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Louisiana -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Large print books.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9798885792592 |
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