Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward children To survive

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she opens herself to a world beyond this world

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staring down his mortality and fading relevance

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Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward children To surviveLet Us Descend describes 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. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is [t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours (NPR). Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the readers guide. As she struggles through the miles long march,