Salvage the Bones
About this book
They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she's pregnant. The children of this family have always been short of nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face building storm- and the day that will dawn after.
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- african american
- african american children
- african american families
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african american teenage girls
- amerikanisches englisch
- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters, fiction
- collectionid:texchallenge2021
- family life
- fiction
- fiction, african american & black, general
- fiction, african american, christian
- fiction, african american, general
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- girls
- hurricane katrina, 2005
- hurricane katrina (2005) fast (ocolc)fst01755264
- large type books
- literary
- mississippi, fiction
- motherless families
- natural disasters
- poor
- poverty
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- roman
- rural poor
- siblings
- teenagers