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Recipient of the 2009BCALA Literary Award

A stunning debut novel from Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds is a rich tale of twins raised by their grandmother in a stiflingly poor rural community on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Upon graduating from high school, growing tensions between brothers Joshua and Christophe test their loyalties-and a violent altercation forever changes their lives.

Editorial Reviews

“A fresh new voice in American literature, Ward unflinchingly describes a world full of despair but not devoid of hope.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A resonant novel for any reader.” —Booklist

“Bursting with life—joyous, loving, frustrated and furious—Where the Line Bleeds marks the forceful debut of an exceptional new talent. Jesmyn Ward's vision is at once searingly honest and sweepingly empathetic. Her vibrant portrait of a Mississippi Gulf Coast town is peopled by some of the most movingly, achingly human characters I've encountered in fiction in years.” —Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl

“Jesmyn Ward's debut novel is eloquent in its description of young lives at risk; she's authoritative both when writing of the doomed and prospect of salvation. The lyric gifts displayed in Where The Line Bleeds are very impressive indeed, and the world evoked—the rural south, with its complex web of family devotion and betrayal—is vivid from first page to last. A major talent here.” —Nicholas Delbanco, author of Spring and Fall, and The Count of Concord

“The plot is as leisurely as a hot Mississippi summer day, and although not much happens until the somewhat violent and surprising ending, this fully realized character study will appeal to teens who can see themselves here or who are interested in discovering realities far from their own lives.” —School Library Journal

“Lushly descriptive prose…with stunning precision. Her prodigious talent and fearless portrayal of a world too often overlooked make her novel a powerful choice for our seventeenth Essence Book Club Recommended Read.” —Essence

“A lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African American reality that are rarely depicted.” —Boston Globe

“A richly textured tale...like the best fiction, [it] creates its own world.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune

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Author Bio: Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA degree from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is also the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is a professor of creative writing at Tulane University.

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Format:	Retail CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD
Category:	Fiction/Literary
Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.
CDs:	9
Runtime:	10.42
ISBN:	9781664503212
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

Where the Line Bleeds

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