Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Men We Reaped: A MemoirNamed a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine The two time National Book Award winner and author of Salvage the Bones and Let Us Descend, contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a Black man in the rural South. "We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood

originally titled Stargate

the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD)

Jessica lives in a little house on the bog along with her family and several million LEGO bricks

her self-absorbed boss

Richard Snow's masterly account of this all-but-forgotten episode is "a hell of a yarn" (Kirkus Reviews) and naval history at its finest

Incantation

from borders to small and medium sized designs in both traditional and modern styles

Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for Camino Island

dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed

it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood

Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success

people choke her