TY  - SOUND
AU  - Ward,Jesmyn
TI  - Let us descend: a novel 
SN  - 9781797161501
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Simon & Schuster Audio
KW  - Enslaved women
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African American children
KW  - African American families
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Slaveholders
KW  - Girls, Black
KW  - Memory
KW  - Spirits
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Read by the author
N2  - 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. While Ward leads listeners 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 land, the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South
ER  -