Jesmyn Ward followers, rejoice! We formally have a title and launch date for her subsequent novel. Let Us Descend is slated for an October third launch from Scribner, a Simon & Schuster imprint.
The ebook will inform the story of enslaved teenage lady Annis, turning an unflinching eye on the terrifying actuality of a life violently robbed of bodily company. “It took years and multiple drafts to understand how Annis and enslaved people might have retained their sense of self, their sense of hope, in a time and place that attempted to negate both, day in and out,” Ward mentioned in an announcement from Scribner. Let Us Descend is described as “a blend of magical realism, historical narrative and Dante’s ‘Inferno.’”
This might be Ward’s first launch since Sing, Unburied, Sing, the epic household saga and street novel set in rural twenty first century Mississippi that received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017. Ward’s Salvage the Bones, set in the times main as much as Hurricane Katrina, received the award in 2011, making her the one Black creator to win two National Book Awards for fiction. Among her different notable works are The Fire This Time, Where the Line Bleeds, and Men We Reaped.
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