Ask a Bookseller: ‘Let Us Descend’ by Jesmyn Ward
On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Amy Loewy of the Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans, La., knew right away which book she wanted to recommend: Jesmyn Ward’s novel “Let Us Descend.”Ward has won the National Book Award for Fiction twice with “Sing, Unburied, Sing” (2017) and “Salvage the Bones” (2011), and Loewy says her most recent novel is a gorgeously crafted journey. The work is deeply researched historical fiction laced with magical realism, and its title comes…
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