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Universally praised, Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped confirmed her ascendancy as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, her Southern requiem securing its place on bestseller and best books of the year lists, with honors and awards pouring in from around the country.

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Men We Reaped Chapter Summary

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• Now in paperback, this powerful memoir by the award-winning novelist of Salvage the Bones is part cultural narrative of Southern life in DeLisle, Mississippi.
• Winner of the 2014 Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Nonfiction.In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life—to drugs, accidents, suicide, an.