5/30/2023 0 Comments Salvage the bones![]() “That she looked at him and felt a fire eating up through her rib cage, turning her blood to boil, evaporating hotly out of every inch of her skin. ![]() “I imagine this is the way Medea felt about Jason when she fell in love,” she thinks. ![]() It’s told by a teenage girl, Esch, whose late-summer thoughts turn to Greek myths and her neglectful lover, Manny. “Salvage the Bones” is an intense book, with powerful, direct prose that dips into poetic metaphor. The result, this year, was that an under-the-radar second novel rose to the top of the pack. In the case of the National Book Awards, five judges read 315 fiction submissions in a small window of time and choose their favorite. While major film and music awards are based on the votes of a large group - meaning there is a general consensus or popularity - book awards are frequently selected by just a few people. Now, however, this novel about a poor Mississippi family in the weeks leading up to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina has a prominent place in bookstores and boasts the gold medallion that comes with winning the 2011 National Book Award.īook awards are marvelously idiosyncratic. ![]() If it had not caught the attention of a handful of important readers, Jesmyn Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” would most likely have quietly faded into obscurity many worthy books do. ![]()
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