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11 Must-Read Books About Women and Mother Nature Going Head-to-Head

We rounded up the best books about heroines facing off with Mother Nature herself.

Marie Claire · Mar 17

Best memoirs of all time

Delve into fascinating, gut-wrenching and healing snippets of life

Evening Standard · Apr 12, 2024

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward review – a plantation hell

This powerful tale of an enslaved woman’s journey through the deep south draws on Dante and African spirit mythology

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward review – a gruelling trek through the antebellum south

The two-time winner of the National Book award returns with the tale of an enslaved woman’s journey to Louisiana, rendered in relentless detail

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2023

Novelist Jesmyn Ward: ‘Losing my partner almost made me stop writing’

When the father of her children died suddenly, the US National Book award-winning author’s world fell apart. Three years on, she talks about grief, starting over and how she wrote her searing new novel about slavery

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2023

Kirkus Prize names Jesmyn Ward, Héctor Tobar among finalists for top literary award

Finalists for a leading annual literary award were announced Wednesday. The Kirkus Prize awards $50,000 to writers working in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers' Literature.

WEKU · Aug 30, 2023

Authors Jesmyn Ward and James McBride are among the nominees for the 10th annual Kirkus Prizes

Novels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists for the Kirkus Prizes, for which winners in fiction, nonfiction and young reader’s literature each receive $50,000

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2023

Fall books: Britney and Barbra's memoirs are among major releases, but political books are fewer

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the most likely nominees for the 2024 presidential election, but you won't see many new books about either this fall

The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2023

Jesmyn Ward novel 'Let Us Descend' to be published Oct. 3

The next novel by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward is the story of an enslaved teenage girl that the publisher is calling a blend of magical realism, historical narrative and Dante’s “Inferno.”

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2023

Jesmyn Ward becomes youngest author to receive Library of Congress fiction award

Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” earned the 2011 National Book Award and her “Sing, Unburied, Sing” was winner of the 2017 National Book Award.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 30, 2022