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A review by leahtylerthewriter
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
See full review on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution website:
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s “Let Us Descend” is a searing and lyrical historical novel that voyages through the antebellum South in a stunning adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno” — the legendary 14th century poem chronicling an allegorical descent through hell.
Raw, transcendent and ultimately hopeful, Ward’s envisioning of American slavery follows a young woman who is guided by the ghost of her warrior grandmother on a harrowing journey from a Carolina rice farm to a Louisiana sugar plantation while desperately seeking freedom.
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/magical-realism-infuses-slave-narrative-with-hope-in-let-us-descend/BGMZXQRHQNFLNLFNJMG7NBBCZA/
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s “Let Us Descend” is a searing and lyrical historical novel that voyages through the antebellum South in a stunning adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno” — the legendary 14th century poem chronicling an allegorical descent through hell.
Raw, transcendent and ultimately hopeful, Ward’s envisioning of American slavery follows a young woman who is guided by the ghost of her warrior grandmother on a harrowing journey from a Carolina rice farm to a Louisiana sugar plantation while desperately seeking freedom.
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/magical-realism-infuses-slave-narrative-with-hope-in-let-us-descend/BGMZXQRHQNFLNLFNJMG7NBBCZA/