Men We Reaped
memoir by Ward
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…gained praise for her memoir Men We Reaped (2013) and the anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (2016), which she edited.
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- In Jesmyn Ward: Literary career
…Alabama, Ward published a memoir, Men We Reaped. The book focuses on a four-year period marked by the deaths of her brother and four other young men she knew from her home community. Acclaimed for its searingly personal portraits of young Black men whose lives were cut short, the memoir…
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