Ward, Jesmyn.

Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. - New York : Bloomsbury, 2012. - 271 p. ; 21 cm.

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

ISBN: 9781608196265 1608196267

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American children--Fiction.
African American teenage girls--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Motherless families--Fiction.
African American families--Mississippi--Fiction.
Rural poor--Mississippi--Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Gulf Coast (Miss.)--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3623.A7323 / S36 2012