Klappentext From Jesmyn Ward - the two-time National Book Award winner - comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. 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.

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Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.