01904cam a2200337 i 4500 1013578830 TxAuBib 20231023120000.0 231012s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023169576 9781982104498 hardcover 198210449X hardcover (OCoLC)1402248702 TxAuBib rda Ward, Jesmyn, author. Let Us Descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2023. ©2023. 305 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. 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. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. 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. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation." -- provided by publisher. 20231023. Mothers and Daughters Fiction. Racially Mixed People Fiction. Slavery Fiction. Enslaved women. Historical Fiction.