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Sarah Frisch, Justin St. Germain, Stephanie Soileau, Jim Gavin, Vanessa Hutchinson, Ammi Keller, Harriet Clark, Will Boast, and Rob Ehle. In addition, many other writers have provided me with essential encouragement, friendship, and feedback: Mike McGriff, J. M. Tyree, Molly Antopol, Skip Horack, Shimon Tanaka, Jeremy Chamberlain, Peter Ho Davies, and Elizabeth Ames Staudt. In DeLisle, thanks to Mark Dedeaux, the Miller family, Sarah Hatcher, Jillian Dedeaux, Aldon Dedeaux, Judy Ann Dedeaux, Dorothy Smith, and everyone in my extended family who always gave me a place to return to and be loved. Finally, I’d like to thank my immediate family: Joshua for being my heart, Nerissa and Charine for being my sister-fighters, De’Sean for being my Buddy, Kalani for being my lion, Jerry for encouraging me as an artist, and Norine for performing miracles every day and making a way out of no way.

A Note on the Author

Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won five of the school’s esteemed Hopwood Awards for essays, drama, and fiction. Ward was the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford and is currently the John and Renée Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds, was an Essence Magazine Book Club selection, a Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award recipient, and a finalist for both the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

By the Same Author

Where the Line Bleeds

Copyright © 2011 by Jesmyn Ward

First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2011

This e-book edition published in 2011

Electronic edition published in 2011

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Ward, Jesmyn.

Salvage the bones : a novel

Jesmyn Ward.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-60819-522-01 (hardback)

African American children—Fiction. 2. African American teenage girls—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Motherless families—Fiction. 5. African American families—Mississippi—Fiction. 6. Rural poor-Mississippi—Fiction. 7. Hurricane Katrina, 2005—Fiction. 8. Gulf Coast (Miss.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3623.A7323S36 2011

813’.6—dc22

2010053025

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-627-2 (ebook)

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