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The National Book Award selection, Jesmyn Ward's Hurricane Katrina novel, "Salvage the Bones," was by contrast less predictable and more conservative.
Synthesis and Ambivalence Sam Sacks 2011
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Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," a bleak but determined novel about a black community in Mississippi devastated by Hurricane Katrina, won the fiction prize.
National Book Awards: Jesmyn Ward's 'Salvage The Bones' Wins 2011
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The writer Jesmyn Ward, however, has not entangled herself in the politics of the catastrophe.
From Medea on the Bayou to Shenanigans in the Office Sam Sacks 2011
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The fiction award went to Jesmyn Ward for "Salvage the Bones" Bloomsbury, the story of a pregnant 15-year-old in Mississippi and her family.
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Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," a bleak but determined novel about a black community in Mississippi devastated by Hurricane Katrina, won the fiction prize.
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The other four nominees - Julie Otsuka's Buddha in the Attic, Andrew Krivak's The Sojourn, Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones, and Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision - are beautiful pieces of work, but not strong sellers or even part of the mainstream literary conversation.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The National Book Awards were announced Wednesday night at Cipriani Wall Street, and Julie Bosman reports in ArtsBeat that the winner for fiction was Jesmyn Ward for "Salvage the Bones," from Bloomsbury, a novel about a Gulf Coast family's preparations as a hurricane bears down.
NYT > Home Page By NOAM COHEN 2011
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Jesmyn Ward's most recent novel, "Salvage the Bones," won the 2011 National Book Award for fiction.
NYT > Home Page By JESMYN WARD 2012
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Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," a bleak but determined novel about a black community in Mississippi devastated by Hurricane Katrina, won the fiction prize.
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The fiction award went to Jesmyn Ward for "Salvage the Bones" Bloomsbury, the story of a pregnant 15-year-old in Mississippi and her family.
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