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Book Spotlight: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward & Giveaway

September 29, 2011 by Darlene

Wow, it’s already Thursday.  I can’t believe how fast the weeks fly by now.  Today I’m spotlighting a book called Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward for you.  This novel is getting some great reviews on Amazon and among bloggers that are reviewing it.  It’s been described as being full of despair yet one of the most powerful books they’ve read.  Unfortunately, it was the wrong time to read it for me.  You know how there are times in your life where the subject matter in a book will just be too hard for you and that’s how I felt here.  This is not to say it’s not a book that others will like and for that reason I wanted to spotlight the book and give others a chance to enter and win their own copy.  So let’s see what the book is about and learn a bit about the author.  Be sure to check out the giveaway at the end of the post as well!

 

About Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

A stunning new voice from the Gulf Coast delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn’t show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn’t much to save. Lately, Esch can’t keep down what food she gets; she’s fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull’s new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child’s play and short on parenting.

As the twelve days that make up the novel’s framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family-motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.

 

About Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford and Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her novels, Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, are both set on the Mississippi coast where she grew up. Bloomsbury will publish her memoir about an epidemic of deaths of young black men in her community. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama.

 

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward is currently on tour with TLC Book Tours.  Be sure to check out the other tour stops to see what others think of the book.  You can purchase your own copy of Salvage the Bones here in the US and here in Canada.

 

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

I have one copy of Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward to share with my readers…

  • For 1 entry leave a comment entering the giveaway
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog.  If you already do, thank you, and please let me know in your comment so I can pass the extra entry on to you as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word.

This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winner on Saturday, October 22/11.  Good luck everyone!

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  1. Diane@BibliophileBytheSea says

    September 29, 2011 at 5:04 am

    Oh Dar, I’ve been reading so many great reviews on this one, that I would LOVE to win a copy of this one.

    Thanks for the giveaway

    bibliophilebythesea AT gmail DOT com

  2. TheBookGirl says

    September 29, 2011 at 6:44 am

    My feelings about a book can often be affected by the particular frame of mind I’m in at the time. It’s why sometimes I will put down a book I just can’t get into, and at some other point when I pick it up again, I find that I become totally engrossed.
    Sorry this was the wrong time for you for this one. It sounds a little too much for me right now too.

  3. Hattie Norman says

    September 29, 2011 at 6:55 am

    I love to meet new authors. Thanks for introducing me to Jesmyn Ward.

    I follow your blog.

    I will tweet the giveaway at Topazshell5.

    teakettle58(at)yahoo(dot)com

  4. Margaret says

    September 29, 2011 at 7:48 am

    I love books set in the south. I’d love to read it!

    Margaret
    singitm@hotmail.com

  5. Margaret says

    September 29, 2011 at 7:48 am

    I’m a follower

    Margaret
    singitm@hotmail.com

  6. anne says

    September 29, 2011 at 9:05 am

    Thks for this lovely review and giveaway. I am an e-mail subscriber.

  7. ellie says

    September 29, 2011 at 9:14 am

    A compelling novel for sure which would be tough to take. Many thanks for this giveaway. I susbcribe.

  8. Ti says

    September 29, 2011 at 9:39 am

    I would love to win this.

    I also follow via Google reader.

  9. carol says

    September 29, 2011 at 11:47 am

    I can totally see it being a powerful book, but too much for me, not because it’s a bad time. I just tend to avoid books tough.

  10. Serena says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    This is a book that I would love to win and read. I have a fascination with books related to Hurricane Katrina.

    I read and really was absorbed by City of Refuge, but I hear this one is different.

    I’d like to be entered and I follow your blog

  11. Mary Ward says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    I’ve been wanting to read this book.

  12. Mary Ward says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    I follow on GFC (mamie316) and email.

  13. teressa oliver says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    Thanks for the giveway, sounds like a great book

  14. teressa oliver says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    I follow your blog on GFC and I get your email

  15. ann says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    Sounds like a book I would enjoy reading

  16. ann says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    I am a email subscriber

  17. ann says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    i like on FB
    GFC follower

    amhengst

  18. Heather J. @ TLC Book Tours says

    September 29, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Thanks for featuring this book for the tour!

  19. Linda Kish says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:02 pm

    I would love to read this book.

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

  20. Linda Kish says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    I am a GFC follower

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

  21. Vicki says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:10 pm

    I’d love to win a copy of this book!
    irbratb(@)gmail(.)com

  22. Vicki says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    I’m a GFC follower
    irbratb(@)gmail(.)com

  23. Vicki says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    TWEET
    irbratb(@)gmail(.)com

  24. Beth Hoffman says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    I’m really eager to read this one!

  25. Jenners says

    September 29, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    I know what you mean about not being ready to read a certain book. This books sounds intense and depressing. I saw a few reviews of it, and I’m not sure I’m ready for it either.

  26. mamabunny13 says

    September 29, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    I would like to win this book. I’ve read a lot of good reviews on it. I know what you mean about it being the right time for reading certain books.
    mamabunny13 at gmail dot com

  27. mamabunny13 says

    September 29, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    I follow you via gfc-mamabunny13
    mamabunny13 at gmail dot com

  28. nfmgirl says

    September 29, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    This one seems disturbing, but I’ve heard good things about it. Please count me in. Thank you!

    I follow

    Blogged:
    http://cerebralgirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/book-giveaways-in-blogworld-09-23-11.html

    nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com

  29. emily l says

    September 29, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    I would love to be entered! Thanks for the giveaway.

    misusedinnocence@aol.com

  30. emily l says

    September 29, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    I follow on gfc.

    misusedinnocence@aol.com

  31. jennygirl says

    September 30, 2011 at 9:39 am

    I am not sure about this one. Sounds too sad for me right now, but thanks for the Spotlight 🙂

    (not an entry)

  32. Patricia Boyle says

    September 30, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Thank you for the opportunity to enter this book contest.

    pboylecharley AT hotmail DOT com

  33. Elisabeth says

    October 2, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    Sounds like a must read.

    ladybook21@yahoo.com

  34. Na says

    October 2, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    This story sounds very different in a good way. I can’t say I have read anything like it and would like to try.

  35. Na says

    October 2, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    I am a GFC follower.

  36. RJB says

    October 5, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Sounds like a good read….
    Thanks

  37. Lisa Garrett says

    October 7, 2011 at 4:38 am

    I live on the Gulf Coast and would love to read this one. Katrina changed so many lives here.

  38. Lisa Garrett says

    October 7, 2011 at 4:39 am

    I follow via GFC.

  39. Lisa Garrett says

    October 7, 2011 at 4:39 am

    Tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/lag32583/status/122259551339806720

  40. Vicki Wurgler says

    October 11, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    thanks I’d love to read this book

  41. Rebecca says

    October 19, 2011 at 2:56 pm

    I love books set in the south…
    Please enter me

  42. a real librarian says

    October 20, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    Thanks for the giveaway!!

    I’m also a follower!!

    areallibrarian[at]gmail[dot]com

  43. Margie says

    October 20, 2011 at 7:31 pm

    I’d love to read this book. Thanks for the giveaway.
    -I follow your blog by GFC

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