Where the Line Bleeds
Author: Ward, Jesmyn
ISBN: 9781408899823
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Jun 2018
Pages: 256 Format: Paperback / softback
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict.
Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi 's Gulf Coast. Over the course of a single, life-changing summer, as they struggle to find work and contend with the reappearance of their parents Cille, who left town for a better job, and Sandman, a dangerous addict the brothers are forced into a series of decisions that will ultimately damn or save them.
A delicate and closely observed portrait of fraternal love and strife and the bonds that can sustain and torment us, Where the Line Bleeds marks the beginning of Jesmyn Ward 's extraordinary career in fiction.
ISBN: 9781408899823
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Jun 2018
Pages: 256 Format: Paperback / softback
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict.
Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi 's Gulf Coast. Over the course of a single, life-changing summer, as they struggle to find work and contend with the reappearance of their parents Cille, who left town for a better job, and Sandman, a dangerous addict the brothers are forced into a series of decisions that will ultimately damn or save them.
A delicate and closely observed portrait of fraternal love and strife and the bonds that can sustain and torment us, Where the Line Bleeds marks the beginning of Jesmyn Ward 's extraordinary career in fiction.
