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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At a family meeting, Ror declares her purpose: I am an artist. But she doesnt really know what that means. Raised on a commune, shes never attended a day of school, and has seen little of the outside world. What she knows best is drawing. To her, its like breathing; its how she makes sense of the world. When her father torches the communeand himselfRors life changes. She, her mother and sister...