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Book excerpt: Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Por: CBS News Entertainment October 22, 2023

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Scribner We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of Paramount Global), the latest novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward, is thick with ghosts, history and searing poetry, in its dramatic story about an enslaved Black girl in the American South, a descendant of a warrior in Africa.Read an excerpt below.  Prefer to listen?  has a 30-day... + full article



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