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Let Us Descend

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  • Jesmyn Ward
    In Jesmyn Ward: Literary career

    …she published her fourth novel, Let Us Descend, its title being an allusion to the descent into hell in Dante’s Inferno. Taking place in the years before the American Civil War, it tells the story of a girl named Annis who is sold by the white enslaver who fathered her…

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