Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward children When he opens up a

When he opens up a shop of his own

where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained

staring down his mortality and fading relevance

and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws

Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward children When he opens up aLet Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is [t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours (NPR). Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the readers guide. As she struggles through the miles long march,