Men We Reaped av Jesmyn Ward

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<p><b>Named one of the Best Books of the Century by <i>New York</i> Magazine</b><br><b><br>Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (<i>Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing</i>) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.</b><br><br><i>¿We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.¿ ¿Harriet Tubman<br><br></i>In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life¿to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth¿and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all di