New Jesmyn Ward Novel LET US DESCEND Coming in October

Jesmyn Ward fans, rejoice! We officially person a rubric and merchandise day for her adjacent novel. Let Us Descend is slated for an October 3rd release from Scribner, a Simon & Schuster imprint.

The publication volition archer the communicative of enslaved teenage miss Annis, turning an unflinching oculus astatine the terrifying world of a beingness violently robbed of carnal agency. “It took years and aggregate drafts to recognize however Annis and enslaved radical mightiness person retained their consciousness of self, their consciousness of hope, successful a clip and spot that attempted to negate both, time successful and out,” Ward said successful a connection from Scribner. Let Us Descend is described arsenic “a blend of magical realism, humanities communicative and Dante’s ‘Inferno.'”

This volition beryllium Ward’s archetypal merchandise since Sing, Unburied, Sing, the epic household saga and roadworthy caller acceptable successful agrarian 21st period Mississippi that won the National Book Award for Fiction successful 2017. Ward’s Salvage the Bones, acceptable successful the days starring up to Hurricane Katrina, won the grant successful 2011, making her the lone Black writer to triumph 2 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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