Okay I’m using a lot of superlative language lol but just - ahhhh, just read it. So much emotion, so much visceral sensory detail, so much unsaid. You could cut the tension on every page with a knife it’s coiled tight like a spring. The prose is incredible, lines like, “But the wind grabs my voice up and snatches it out and over the pines, and drops it there to die.” She does so much in so little space. This novel packs such a punch, and in less than 300 pages, too. At the same time, Hurricane Katrina is coming, and one brother’s prize pit bull just had very valuable puppies. She’s also constantly surrounded brothers’ friends, one of whom is the father of the baby growing in her belly.
Her mother died from labor complications when her youngest brother was born.
Salvage the Bones is about a teen girl named Esch, who lives near the coast of Mississippi with her father and three brothers.
It’s not every year that the world births a writing talent like Jesmyn Ward. But it’s just not every day that you read a novel like Salvage the Bones. There are most certainly many people who have praised this book much more thoroughly than I can. “If the scrapes were on the front of our knees, she would put our dirty feet in the middle of her chest to clean the wounds, and we could feel her heart beating, strong as the thud of the ground when we walked, through our soles.” A wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bone is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. As the twelve days that comprise the novel's framework yield to the final day and Hurricane Katrina, the unforgettable family at the novel's heart-motherless children sacrificing for each other as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to struggle for another day. While brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets she's fourteen and pregnant. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save.
A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned.
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