Let Us Descend Av Jesmyn Ward

<B>OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK *; Instant <I>New York Times </I>Bestseller </B><B>*; Named one of the best books of 2023 by <I>The</I><I>Washington Post</I>, <I>Vanity Fair</I>, <I>The</I><I>Boston Globe</I>, <I>Time</I>, <I>The New Yorker</I>, and more.</B><BR><BR><B>';Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.' <I>Vogue</I> *; ';A novel of triumph.' <I>The Washington Post</I> *; ';Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.' <I>People</I></B><BR><BR><B>From ';one of America's finest living writers' (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>) and ';heir apparent to Toni Morrison' (<I>LitHub</I>)comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that's destined to become a classic.</B><BR><BR><I>Let Us Descend</I> describes 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. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is ';[t]he liter