{"product_id":"men-we-reaped-a-memoir","title":"Men We Reaped A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A brutal, moving memoir … Anyone who emerges from America’s black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward’s deserves a hearing''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Raw, beautiful and dangerous'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Lavishly endowed with literary craft and hard-earned wisdom'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beautiful, haunting memoir from Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''And then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped'' - Harriet Tubman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJesmyn Ward’s acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost five young black men dear to her, including her beloved brother – to accidents, murder and suicide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their lives had been connected by identity and place. As Jesmyn dealt with these losses, she came to a staggering truth: the fates of these young men were predetermined by who they were and where they were from,  because racism and economic struggle breed a certain kind of bad luck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe agonising reality brought Jesmyn to write, at last, their true stories and her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Acute and often beautiful'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Haunting'' \u003c\/b\u003e- Laurie Penny, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Elegiac, rage-filled, and uncommonly brave'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A brilliant book about beauty and death'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Essential'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Burns with brilliance'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Harper''s Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Unvarnished and penetrating'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Elle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317962449278,"sku":"NW9781408898727","price":10.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781408898727.jpg?v=1778245449","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/men-we-reaped-a-memoir","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}