{"product_id":"let-us-descend-9781982104498b","title":"Let Us Descend","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eOPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e2023 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Historical Fiction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” —\u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, Dante Alighieri\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/i\u003e is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. \u003ci\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/i\u003e is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42872534892624,"sku":"9781982104498B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781982104498-l.jpg?v=1785880971","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/let-us-descend-9781982104498b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}