You know, I just did not think that I was going to win. You were so surprised that you almost couldn't talk. MARTIN: What about the award? I'm told that you were very surprised. Welcome, and congratulations on this really significant honor. "Salvage the Bones" recently won the National Book Award for fiction and Jesmyn Ward joins us now. It's all seen through the eyes of the 15-year-old narrator named Esch. Extreme poverty, sexual abuse, routine violence and survival. In her novel, "Salvage the Bones," Jesmyn Ward tells the story of how one family on the Mississippi Gulf Coast endured Hurricane Katrina.īut it also tells the story of what they were enduring before the storm. Sometimes, the stories of life's biggest triumphs and tragedies are best told, not in the headlines or in a cable news crawl, but in literature.
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