Having delivered his family through the furor of Camille, preparation is his obsession: The patriarch of the Batiste family is attuned to the impending disaster, smelling danger in the air. Salvage the Bones is set in the Mississippi Gulf hamlet of Bois Sauvage, in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. And – Hello World! – now everyone knows it. Need I say it? She is a writer of exceptional talent and potential. From 2008 – 2010 she had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. For 2010 – 2011 she was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. Ward is assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama. And the 2011 National Book Award was won by a come-from-behind, not widely known author: Jesmyn Ward, author of the previous novel Where the Line Bleeds. Few things get my attention as quickly as a come-from-behind award win by a new or not widely known author.
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