Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward, an African-American writer, wrote the book Men We Reaped. Bloomsbury released the book in 2013. Ward's book focuses on her own past as well as the deaths of five Black males in her life during a four-year period. Men We Reaped was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction.

Ward relates their experiences with love and reverence; they come to life once again in these pages. Their stories intertwine with hers: her displacement and misery, and subsequently, the difficult narrative of her own survival and isolation as she is recruited to top all-white colleges. She is a writer who has digested the Greeks and Faulkner — their themes run through her writing — and the story of these men's deaths are intertwined with wider national narratives about rural poverty and prejudice. Ward, on the other hand, never permits her people to become symbols. This effort of immense sadness and beauty distinguishes them and makes them unique and irreplaceable.

Detailed information:

Author: Jesmyn Ward
Language: English
Genre: Memoir

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286683