But I think it is a remedy.

Ward, 40, has chosen to return to DeLisle and raise her children there, despite her profound ambivalence about what the town represents. "When she first started writing the book, she was jolted to realize how little she knew about the history of the slave trade in New Orleans, a city just 60 miles away from her home and where she has spent a lot of time over the years. "On a driving tour through DeLisle, we pass by small homes and rickety trailers set into the brush. Her choices were limited and constrained.

In 2004, her younger sister’s boyfriend burned to death in a car accident; another friend was shot to death, and a third suffered a fatal heart …

"So much about that place reveals the essence of, the worst of Mississippi," Ward says.

There are other factors that influence your personal choices and limit your choices….

The kids who had the kind of attention that I had in my private school were like the top five percent of the class in public school.

All of them were poor young black men living in and around DeLisle, Mississippi, the tight-knit community where Ward grew up, calling everyone a cousin or a friend.DeLisle, fictionalized as Bois Sauvage in her stunning National Book Award-winning second novel, Injustice is only the most overt symptom of racism that African-Americans must live with in slavery’s old Southern domain, which Ward writes about with formidable insight. I understand that this is a small remedy. That must have been really difficult for him.
I couldn't run from that desire to tell stories, that desire to tell stories about We've been talking in the room in her home where Ward writes ("I like to call it my library, but then that sounds pretentious," she says.)


Her characters are marginalized people — poor and black — who have always been seen as "worth less," she says. It was easier for a kid like him to just fall through the cracks. So then, of course, the easiest thing for him to do is to leave. '"Writing Richie's story, Ward says, "almost feels like I'm righting a wrong, in a fictional way. America is haunted by its own history. Yet she was coming to me for advice and coaching, because those resources weren’t available at her school. If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating. That he couldn’t even support his family.

She's especially unnerved by the recent violent rally staged by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. What really made me angry, and something I wanted to talk about through this book, is that this is not the case. My mom was out working in the real world. Her father worked occasional factory jobs and raised pit bulls for dog fights. But when I was writing about each of the people in my book, it was clear to me that it wasn’t just about personal choice. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. 4,8 sur 5 étoiles 14. "Ward's trajectory shifted unexpectedly when she was in middle school and got a life-changing opportunity.At the time, her mother worked as a maid for a wealthy white family in their mansion on the Gulf Coast, and they offered to pay the tuition for Jesmyn to go to a small, private Episcopal school. He just wasn’t advancing. Every chance she gets, she returns to the heat and woods of coastal Mississippi that she evokes with so much love and regret in My mom had a high school education. A way of understanding myself: who I am, and where I come from, and "But," she continues, with a rueful laugh, "there's much I dislike about this place.

""I thought, 'This person has to speak,'" Ward says. She’s very good at math. Why can't I undo some of that erasure?'"

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