A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.Īs the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family-motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day. Get reviews, hours, directions, coupons and more for Wards Garage & Salvage Yard at 706 Marigold Rd, Spencer, VA 24165.

Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets she's fourteen and pregnant. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Ward Brothers has two phone numbers, a local line at 82 and a toll-free number at 1-80. You can get in touch in all sorts of ways. Ward Brothers Tractor & Salvage is on 1444 Place Road, Hendersonville, North Carolina 28790. In the vein of Jesmyn Wards Salvage the Bones and Sue Monk Kidds The Secret Life of Bees, a coming-of-age novel told by almost-eleven-year-old Kenya.

A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. That’s why Ward Brothers offers servicing and parts work as well. Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.Ī hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned.

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