In this searing memoir, Jesmyn Ward reflects on the death of her brother and a number of male friends.
Bloomsbury
9781608197651
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Bloomsbury
9781608197651
In this searing memoir, Jesmyn Ward reflects on the death of her brother and a number of male friends.
After a drunk driver killed Jesmyn Ward’s younger brother, Joshua, in a horrific car accident, the court sentenced the driver, who was white, to five years in jail for leaving the scene of an accident, but declined to charge him with vehicular manslaughter. Ward, in disbelief, thought to herself, “This is what my brother’s life…
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