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Title Let us descend [LARGE PRINT] : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Author Ward, Jesmyn, author.
Publication Info. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  LARGE FIC WAR    Checked Out
 South Trail  LARGE FIC WAR    Check Shelves
Edition Large print edition.
Description 363 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
large print 16 point rdafs
Summary "Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, 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 reader's 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"-- Back cover.
Subject Louisiana -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.
Girls, Black -- Fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Spirits -- Fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
Enslaved women -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
African American families -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Memory -- Fiction.
Spirits -- Fiction.
Slaves -- Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
Large print books.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Large print books.
ISBN 9798885792592 (large print ; hardcover) : $36.99
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