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Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways,…

— Natasha Trethewey

Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear…

— Victor LaValle

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant.…

— Skip Horack

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth

“There are some men, Jepp, whose lives are like this-- a single volume. Their story is seamless, without fissures or breaks. They live but…

— Katherine Marsh

“The pressure to get over, to forget, to wipe away the past, is often reinforced by one particular way of reading Christian redemption. The…

— Shelly Rambo

Rereading, we find a new book.

— Mason Cooley

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

— Tim O'Brien

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

— Laurie Halse Anderson