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    Men We Reaped: A Memoir

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    ISBN: 9781408898727
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    AuthorWard, Jesmyn
    Pub Date19/04/2018
    BindingPaperback
    Pages272
    Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
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    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST

    '...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet Tubman

    Jesmyn Ward's acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from, in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young men dear to her, including her beloved brother - to accidents, murder and suicide. Their deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their lives had been connected, by identity and place, and as Jesmyn dealt with these losses, she came to a staggering truth: These young men died because of who they were and the place they were from, because racism and economic struggle breed a certain kind of bad luck.
    The agonising reality brought Jesmyn to write, at last, their true stories and her own.

    Men We Reaped opens up a parallel universe, yet it points to problems whose roots are woven into the soil under all our feet. This indispensable American memoir is destined to become a classic.