Men We Reaped: A Memoir
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life-to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized th...show more
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Such a moving account of the loss of so many young men in the author's community, as well as a look at her childhood and the challenges of balancing two disparate worlds.
“I wonder why silence is the sound of our subsumed rage, our accumulated grief. I decided this is not right, that I must give voice to this story.”
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In four years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men dear to her—lost to drugs, accidents, and suicide. Their deaths were unconnected, on the surface of things—but their lives were connected, by identity and place, and as Jesmyn dealt with these losses, ...read more
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