Men we Reaped : : a Memoir

Locations
Call Number: 813.6 Wa, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Ward, Jesmyn
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	813.6 Wa	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Ward, Jesmyn	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Ward, Jesmyn	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Ward, Jesmyn	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Not Easy to Write About submitted by DBJC on August 16, 2017, 12:51pm Ever since I read Salvage the Bones, I've wanted to devour everything that Jesmyn Ward has written. Men We Reaped is a memoir comprised of small slivers of the lives of men who she knew in her Mississippi community, and it is a gateway to what it's like to be poor and black in the south. This is not a memoir that was easily written, and it's seen through her lyrical prose--her words of full of hurt and hunger, hunger for answers about why these men were not given the lives that they deserved. What their lives were, are worth, is more than the value that most people place on black men (and women) in the south. Ward hasn't done an easy thing by writing this memoir but I'm glad that she did.