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From Jesmyn WardΓÇöthe two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction and MacArthur FellowΓÇöcomes a haunting masterpiece sure to be an instant classic about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. ΓÇ£ΓÇÿLet us descendΓÇÖ the poet now beganΓÇÿand enter this blind world.ΓÇÖΓÇ¥ ΓÇöInfernoDante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching harrowing replete with transcendent love the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her is the readerΓÇÖs guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march Annis turns inward seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout she opens herself to a world beyond this world one teeming with spirits: of earth and water of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent this her fourth novel is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very landΓÇöthe rich but unforgiving forests swamps and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn WardΓÇÖs most magnificent novel yeta masterwork for the ages.
