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Original Title:	Men We Reaped
ISBN:	160819521X (ISBN13: 9781608195213)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (2014), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for NonFiction (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2013), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014), Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2014)

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 13157 Users | 1666 Reviews

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'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet Tubman

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own.

Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue high education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.

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Title	:	Men We Reaped
Author	:	Jesmyn Ward
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2013 by Bloomsbury USA
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Race. Cultural. African American. Biography

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Ratings: 4.2 From 13157 Users | 1666 Reviews

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A powerful memoir about growing up Black and poor in the South. About self-esteem, racism, death, grief, and family.

I'm predicting Jesmyn Ward will be the next Black American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her body of work is awesome, and I suspect it will remain that way as she publishes more work.Fleshed out thoughts to come.

Jesmyn Ward's memoir, Men We Reaped, is depressing yet well-written. It is a story of loss, mourning, hardship, and numerous calls (or perhaps the perpetual call) Home, again and again. Ward and her family faced many struggles, most of which were not self-induced, although her father constantly made poor decisions. Her mother was resilient, enduring immense sacrifices to keep the family afloat, and surviving. Each of the stories about the men Ward shared were depressing. Some were more engaging

Meditative and moving, Jesmyn Ward's memoir places personal tragedy against the backdrop of systemic racism and poverty. Ward alternates between recounting her childhood in rural Mississippi and sketching biographies of five young Black men she intimately knew, all who died within the span of four years. Each chapter consists of a series of loosely connected vignettes, written in plain but powerful prose. The book's associative structure and accessible language would make it a swift read, were

After discussing Sing Unburied Sing with a group, some seemed to have more insight after reading Jesmyn Ward's memoir and made me want to read it too. It isn't easy going - chapters alternate between her life and the stories of five men in her family/community that died within a period of five years. Highly recommended especially as a companion to her fiction, but really for anyone interested in how a person can share difficult personal stories in an honest way. This is memoir 9 of my Nonfiction

This started as a 4 star, but the last part of the book really ramped up and moved me to tears. Ward writes beautifully and you can feel her grief pour through the pages. She does a great job at personalizing the statistics of young black men in poverty and honoring their lives.

Hello. We are here. Listen.In four years Jesmyn Ward lost five young men close to her to tragic deaths. The oldest was 32, the youngest 19, and they were beautiful, troubled, flawed and gifted. This is not an unusual story in communities experiencing poverty and racism, and when you multiply her experience out to all of these people, the weight of the loss is suffocating. Bravo to Ward for making us feel this. This book is like a Shakespearean tragedy for our times. It must have taken tremendous