Why did I love this book?
When I read this for the second time- I again fell into the story, completely absorbed in the language and the main character, fourteen-year-old Esch.
I loved how she loved her brothers and how they loved her back in such real and relatable ways. I believed in her pregnancy and in her poverty. I felt the suspense and drama of Hurricane Katrina getting stronger and coming closer, even as the family struggled with their more everyday problems and needs. I loved the lush and vivid descriptions of nature.
I felt I was there, experiencing this with these people. This is what literature can do: cross boundaries of class and race and age and gender, helping us transcend the narrowness of our particular life.
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_______________ 'A brilliantly pacy adventure story ... Ward writes like a dream' - The Times 'Fresh and urgent' - New York Times 'There's something of Faulkner to Ward's grand diction' - Guardian _______________ WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Hurricane Katrina is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stockpiling food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets;…