Salvage the Bones

Summary

Over twelve days in a fictional Mississippi town, a poor Black family of motherless children prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, narrated by a pregnant fifteen-year-old daughter. Ward writes in a dense, mythic register, layering classical allusion with the everyday textures of Gulf Coast life and the brutal devotion of a fighting pit bull. The novel is a piercing portrait of family, poverty, and impending disaster on the eve of catastrophe.