Men We Reaped: a Memoir

✍ Scribed by Jesmyn Ward

• Book ID: 100272731
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 141 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1608197573

✦ Synopsis

In this stirring and clear-eyed memoir, the 2011 National Book Award winner contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the still great risk of being a black man in the rural South.

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_"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." --Harriet Tubman

_In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they...