Salvage the bones: a novel

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Ward, Jesmyn
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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

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African American children
African American children -- Fiction
African American families
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
African American Fiction
African American teenage girls
African American teenage girls -- Fiction
Fiction
Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction
Historical Fiction
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction
Literature
Motherless families
Motherless families -- Fiction
Rural poor
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
Siblings
Siblings -- Fiction

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9781608196265
9781608195220
9781608196272
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