Summary of Let Us Descend a Novel by Jesmyn Ward

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Summary of Let Us Descend a Novel By Jesmyn Ward


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  • Jesmyn Ward's "Let Us Descend" is a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl before the Civil War. The novel follows her journey from the Carolinas rice fields to New Orleans slave markets and into a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by her white enslaver, navigates a hellscape filled with spirits and spirits of earth, water, myth, and history. Ward's fourth novel is a story of rebirth and reclamation, inscribing Black American grief and joy into the land.

    Summary of Let Us Descend a Novel by Jesmyn Ward