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| Original Title: | Men We Reaped |
| ISBN: | 160819521X (ISBN13: 9781608195213) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (2014), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for NonFiction (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2013), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014), Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2014) |
Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 4.2 | 13157 Users | 1666 Reviews
Details Of Books Men We Reaped
| Title | : | Men We Reaped |
| Author | : | Jesmyn Ward |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | September 17th 2013 by Bloomsbury USA |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Race. Cultural. African American. Biography |
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'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet Tubman In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she 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 that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue high education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.Rating Of Books Men We Reaped
Ratings: 4.2 From 13157 Users | 1666 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books Men We Reaped
A beautiful, loving and wrenching tribute to five young black men who burned bright and died so young, trapped in a world of poverty and racism, where opportunities to thrive are virtually nil, but opportunities to crash and burn are everywhere. Ward gives voice to the pain, love and despair in her community, and the strength it takes to carry on. What I did not understand then was that the same pressures were weighing on us all. My entire community suffered from a lack of trust: we didn't trustI'm predicting Jesmyn Ward will be the next Black American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her body of work is awesome, and I suspect it will remain that way as she publishes more work.Fleshed out thoughts to come.
Searing and heartbreaking. I literally picked this book up off the coffee table to carry it upstairs before bed and ended up reading the entire thing standing up there in the living room.
Wards writing has moments of luminescence too many to count. But Men We Reaped is breathtakingly full of despair. You can listen to six hours of Lightnin Hopkins or read this memoir. Either way, if youre listening closely, youll need a bottle of your favorite beverage and a big box of tissues to see your way to the end.
Oh my God, I sobbed my way through this from the first page to the last. In this devastating memoir, Jesmyn Ward succeeds in bringing life to the fallen, meaning to the pain, and beauty to the suffering. It is a reflection of the five men she and her small Mississippi community lost one of whom was her brother through accidents, suicide, murder, and drug addiction. The book's title comes from the haunting words of Harriet Tubman: "...and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood
Jesmyn Ward's memoir, Men We Reaped, is depressing yet well-written. It is a story of loss, mourning, hardship, and numerous calls (or perhaps the perpetual call) Home, again and again. Ward and her family faced many struggles, most of which were not self-induced, although her father constantly made poor decisions. Her mother was resilient, enduring immense sacrifices to keep the family afloat, and surviving. Each of the stories about the men Ward shared were depressing. Some were more engaging
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