New Hampshire Public Radio: 'Let Us Descend' follows a slave on a painful journey — finding some hope on the way
Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend is a superb historical-fiction novel sprinkled with supernatural elements that pulls readers into the life of a slave on a long, painful journey. And, while accurate, this ...
'Let Us Descend' follows a slave on a painful journey — finding some hope on the way
CBS News: Oprah chooses "Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward as new book club pick
Oprah chooses "Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward as new book club pick
AOL: 'Let Us Descend,' set on a Carolina rice plantation, is a Faulknerian novel of slavery
Jesmyn Ward's new novel is "Let Us Descend." Jesmyn Ward, a two-time National Book Award winner, turns to the antebellum South in her new novel "Let Us Descend." Ward's heroine is Annis, an enslaved ...
'Let Us Descend,' set on a Carolina rice plantation, is a Faulknerian novel of slavery
The Boston Globe: Jesmyn Ward, in ‘Let Us Descend,’ enters the underworld of slavery with spirits — and poets — as guides
Leading Dante into hell, Virgil, the poet guide, intones: “Now let us descend into the blind world here below.” Jesmyn Ward’s new novel, her fourth, “Let Us Descend,” employs Alighieri as a guide ...
Jesmyn Ward, in ‘Let Us Descend,’ enters the underworld of slavery with spirits — and poets — as guides
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Magical realism infuses slave narrative with hope in ‘Let Us Descend’
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s “Let Us Descend” is a searing and lyrical historical novel that voyages through the antebellum South in a stunning adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno” — ...