Salvage the bones: a novel

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Author:
Ward, Jesmyn
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English
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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.
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African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
African American teenage girls -- Fiction
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
Motherless families -- Fiction
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
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Salvage the bones : a novel
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African American families
African American teenage girls
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005
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Motherless families
Rural poor

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