{"product_id":"men-we-reaped-jesmyn-ward-9781408898727","title":"Men We Reaped","description":"\u003cp\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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' - Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Raw, beautiful and dangerous' - New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Lavishly endowed with literary craft and hard-earned wisdom' - Time\n\u003cbr\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful, haunting memoir from Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe agonising reality brought Jesmyn to write, at last, their true stories and her own.\n\u003cbr\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Acute and often beautiful' - Financial Times\n\u003cbr\u003e'Haunting' - Laurie Penny, New Statesman Books of the Year\n\u003cbr\u003e'Elegiac, rage-filled, and uncommonly brave' - Vogue\n\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant book about beauty and death' - Los Angeles Times\n\u003cbr\u003e'Essential' - San Francisco Chronicle\n\u003cbr\u003e'Burns with brilliance' - Harper's Bazaar\n\u003cbr\u003e'Unvarnished and penetrating' - Elle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jesmyn Ward","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48879895675123,"sku":"9781408898727","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781408898727.jpg?v=1777151773","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/men-we-reaped-jesmyn-ward-9781408898727","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}