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Meet Jesmyn on the Let Us Descend Book Tour!
 
OCTOBER 24

New York City

The Center for Fiction at Town Hall

In conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

OCTOBER 25

Washington, DC

Loyalty Books at Lincoln Theatre

In conversation with Jason Reynolds

 

OCTOBER 26

Minneapolis, MN

University of Minnesota

In conversation with V. V. Ganeshananthan

 

OCTOBER 27

Charis Books & More at First Baptist Church of Decatur

In conversation with Regina Bradley

 

OCTOBER 28

Pass Christian, MS

Pass Christian Books

 
OCTOBER 29

Dallas, TX

The Dallas Museum of Art

in conversation with Kiese Laymon

 

NOVEMBER 1

Oxford, MS

Square Books at The Powerhouse

In conversation with Richard Howorth

 

NOVEMBER 3

Jackson, MS

Jackson State University

 

NOVEMBER 4

Jackson, MS

Lemuria Books at Millsaps College

 

NOVEMBER 8

Ann Arbor, MI

Literati Bookstore at University of Michigan

In conversation with Kiley Reid

 

NOVEMBER 9

New Orleans, LA

Baldwin & Co. Bookstore

In conversation with Kiese Laymon

Let Us Descend

A Novel

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.

Hardcover

LIST PRICE $28.00

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

A Novel

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic.

Trade Paperback

LIST PRICE $17.00

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Hardcover

LIST PRICE $27.00

PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER

The Character That Appeared to Me

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