Men we reaped
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
Series: Thorndike Press large print African-American; Thorndike Press large print African-American series
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781410462503
Subjects: Large type books; African American men; African American women authors; Rural poor; Biography
Description: 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. But why? As she began to write about living through all the dying, Jesmyn 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 lived with a history of racism and economic struggle.