Book Talk

Book Talk

FM 89.3 WYPL Book Talk  //  Book Talk is an author interview program produced by FM89.3 WYPL in Memphis, TN. WYPL is a service of The Memphis Public Library and Information Center, a division of the City of Memphis.

 
Sep 18 / 6:31pm

Podcast - Jesmyn Ward "Salvage the Bones"

 

Stephen Usery interviews Jesmyn Ward about her second novel, Salvage the Bones. It's August of 2005, and as the hurricane season begins heating up, a Mississippi Gulf Coast teenage girl named Esch tries to get by from day to day, as her brother raises pit bulls for fighting, her father obsesses about the coming storms, and the world at large seems to have little to no sympathy for the rural poor.

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