Displaying 1 of 1 2011 Format: Book Call Number: F Author: Ward, Jesmyn. Title: Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Bloomsbury, 2011. Description: 261 pages ; 22 cm Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups. Subjects: Hurricane Katrina (2005) 2005 African American children -- Fiction. African American teenage girls -- Fiction. Brothers and sisters -- Fiction. Motherless families -- Fiction. African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction. Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction. Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction. African American children. African American families. African American teenage girls. Brothers and sisters. Motherless families. Rural poor. PLP -- Women's History Month -- Fiction -- 2018.03. PLP -- Family Struggle -- 2018.10. PLP -- 21st Century African American Fiction -- 2019.01. PLP -- Women's History Month - Historical Fiction -- 2019.02. Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction. Mississippi. Mississippi -- Gulf Coast. Genre: Novels. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Notes: Reading Counts High School 5.7 20. National Book Award, Fiction, 2011. LCCN: 2010053025 ISBN: 9781608195220 1608195228 * 9781408827000 * 140882700X 9781608195220 Other Number: 694566457 Items available: 3 Copies owned: 4 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Availability' section below. Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Availability Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1