On Witness and Respair Essays

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Title: On Witness and Respair
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Category: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Poetry, Literary Theory & Criticism
Language: English | 256 Pages | ISBN: 166806426X


Description:
[b]The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.[/b]
Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair.

From the two-time National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Jesmyn Ward, this collection of essays documents more than a decade of work in the life of a singular writer often lauded as "the heir apparent to Toni Morrison" (LitHub). Beginning with her upbringing in a multigenerational household in rural Mississippi, the cradle of both her youth and her gift for storytelling, Ward brings her keen wisdom and hauntingly lyrical prose to a range of topics, following in her grandmother Dorothy's footsteps when she promises always to "Tell it straight. Tell it all."

True to her word, in these pages Ward contemplates the writers and novels of her youth and adulthood-the...

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