Books by Jesmyn Ward
“I love this book. It’s about how the past forms a person and a landscape. Spirits enter the story and haunt her characters. Jesmyn captures the landscape so profoundly well.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Jesmyn Ward were recommended
The best books on Mississippi, recommended by Ralph Eubanks
Outsiders see Mississippi as a site of slavery and indigenous removal; but to write about Mississippi is to write about the United States as a whole—and its original sins, says Prof Ralph Eubanks, as he recommends five of the best books on Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues.