![]() ![]() 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. 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.Īnnis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the listener’s guide through this hellscape. Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. “‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” -Inferno, Dante Alighieri From Jesmyn Ward-the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow-comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. ![]()
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