Ward’s prose is so poetic in emphasising the inevitable tragedy that you know is looming, if you are at all familiar with the tragedies of Medea and/or Hurricane Katrina. Salvage the Bones eschews summaries in many ways, but if you think it overambitious that a novel of just over 200 pages could possibly tackle all of these enormously important subjects, you are wrong. It is also a novel about motherhood, abusive alcoholism, and dog fighting. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011) is a novel about impoverished Black people in Mississippi in the run-up to, and immediate aftermath of, Hurricane Katrina. This post is going to be about one such adaptation, which really showcases the potential for Americanist implications when retelling Ancient Greek myths.
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