Jesmyn Ward. (2014). Men We Reaped: A Memoir. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

Jesmyn Ward. 2014. Men We Reaped: A Memoir. Recorded Books, Inc.

Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir. Recorded Books, Inc, 2014.

Jesmyn Ward. Men We Reaped: A Memoir. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2014.

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"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." —Harriet Tubman"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 the truth—and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.

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     June 24, 2013
     In this riveting memoir of the ghosts that haunt her hometown in Mississippi, two-time novelist and National Book Award–winner Ward (Salvage the Bones) writes intimately about the pall of blighted opportunity, lack of education, and circular poverty that hangs over the young, vulnerable African-American inhabitants of DeLisle, Miss., who are reminiscent of the characters in Ward’s fictionalized Bois Sauvage. The five young black men featured here are the author’s dear friends and her younger brother, whose deaths between 2000 and 2004 were “seemingly unrelated,” but all linked to drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and a general “lack of trust” in the ability of society—and, ultimately, family and friends—to nurture them. The first to die (though his story is told last in the book) was her brother, Joshua, a handsome man who didn’t do as well in school as Ward and was stuck back home, doing odd jobs while his sister attended Stanford and later moved to N.Y.C. Joshua died senselessly after being struck by a drunk driver on a dark coastal road one night. The “wolf” that tracked all of these young men—and the author, too, when she experienced the isolation of being black at predominantly white schools—was the sense of how little their lives mattered. Ward beautifully incorporates the pain and guilt woven her and her brother’s lives by the absence and failure of their father, forcing their mother to work as a housekeeper to keep the family afloat. Ward has a soft touch, making these stories heartbreakingly real through vivid portrayal and dialogue.

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     A scorching journey through a heartbreaking Southern landscape, this memoir by National Book Award winner Ward (Salvage the Bones) is perfectly narrated by Cherise Booth, whose nuanced and understated performance allows the raw emotional content of the story to speak for itself. The deaths of five black men in Mississippi and Louisiana are recounted in a sort of reverse chronology, starting with the one who died last and moving back in time to the death of the author's younger brother. The author's own story never takes center stage as she talks about the potential and promise of these young men who were lost in various ways from suicide to accidents to murder, with all of the strife involving racial and social inequities endemic to the American South. Her recollections--sometimes of innocent youth, sometimes of adolescent misbehavior--take on an almost unbearable poignancy because the ends of these brief lives overshadow the occasional sweetness of her memories. VERDICT A must for all libraries. ["Ward's candid account is full of sadness and hope that takes readers out of their comfort zone and proves that education and hard work are the way up for the young and downtrodden," read the review of the Bloomsbury hc, LJ 9/1/13.]--Victoria A. Caplinger, NoveList, Durham, NC

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." —Harriet Tubman"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 the truth—and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until...

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