Let Us Descend

SKU: 9781526666727
Let Us Descend - Readers Warehouse
Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend - Readers Warehouse
Let Us Descend

Let Us Descend

SKU: 9781526666727
Author: Jesmyn Ward
C-Format·Ages 18+·Historical Fiction
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At a glance

🖤 Tone
Haunting, lyrical, emotionally powerful
⚡ Pace
Slow-burning, immersive
🌾 Vibes
American South, survival, spiritual undertones, brutal injustice, resilience
✨ Themes
Freedom, motherhood, survival, identity, resilience, oppression
📖 Hook
A young enslaved woman’s journey through unimaginable hardship becomes a powerful story of endurance, memory, and the fight to hold onto humanity
💫 Perfect For
Fans of deeply emotional historical fiction with lyrical prose and powerful social themes

The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand.

On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother's resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior grandmother. Everything she knows, she learned from her mother - how to fight, how to be strong, how to grow up in a world shrouded in darkness.

When she is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, Annis must venture onward through the rich but unforgiving landscapes of the American South alone: from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans, and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Searching for relief in memories of her mother, she opens herself to a world beyond her own, teeming with spirits of earth, water, history and myth.

A reimagining of American slavery as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching, Let Us Descend offers a magnificent portrait of the strength of the human spirit and its ability to emerge from darkness into light. This is a story of beauty, love, rebirth and reclamation - a masterwork for the ages.

Book details

Format
C-Format
Reading age
18+
Pages
320
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
ISBN
9781526666727

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