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Meet Jesmyn on the Let Us Descend Book Tour!
OCTOBER 24New York City
The Center for Fiction at Town Hall
In conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
OCTOBER 25Washington, DC
Loyalty Books at Lincoln Theatre
In conversation with Jason Reynolds
OCTOBER 26Minneapolis, MN
University of Minnesota
In conversation with V. V. Ganeshananthan
OCTOBER 27Charis Books & More at First Baptist Church of Decatur
In conversation with Regina Bradley
OCTOBER 28Pass Christian, MS
Pass Christian Books
OCTOBER 29Dallas, TX
The Dallas Museum of Art
in conversation with Kiese Laymon
NOVEMBER 1Oxford, MS
Square Books at The Powerhouse
In conversation with Richard Howorth
NOVEMBER 3Jackson, MS
Jackson State University
NOVEMBER 4Jackson, MS
Lemuria Books at Millsaps College
NOVEMBER 8Ann Arbor, MI
Literati Bookstore at University of Michigan
In conversation with Kiley Reid
NOVEMBER 9New Orleans, LA
Baldwin & Co. Bookstore
In conversation with Kiese Laymon
Let Us Descend
A Novel
By Jesmyn Ward
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.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
A Novel
By Jesmyn Ward
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.
The Character That Appeared to Me
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