{"product_id":"let-us-descend-9798885792592","title":"Let Us Descend","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Jesmyn Ward--the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for 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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Let us descend, ' the poet now began, 'and enter this blind world.'\" -- \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, Dante Alighieri\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnis, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thorndike Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606159462674,"sku":"9798885792592","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_096d7afe-676a-42ec-8d8c-d2cdf5528ae1.jpg?v=1748721163","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/let-us-descend-9798885792592","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}