01686cam a2200349 4500 361469000 TxAuBib 20120216120000.0 101228s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010053025 9781608195220 1608195228 (OCoLC)694566457 TxAuBib Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011. 261 p. ; 22 cm. Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups. 20120216. African American children Fiction. African American teenage girls Fiction. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Motherless families Fiction. African American families Mississippi Fiction. Rural poor Mississippi Fiction. Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Fiction. Gulf Coast (Miss) Fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1107/2010053025-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1107/2010053025-d.html Publisher description