Let Us Descend, SIGNED, Jesmyn Ward

Let Us Descend, SIGNED, Jesmyn WardNew SIGNED Hardback The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand. On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother's resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior grandmother. Everything she knows, she learned from her mother how to fight, how to be strong, how to grow up in a world shrouded in darkness. When she is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, Annis must venture onward through

hidden in the woods and even in city streets and parks

It dives into their culture and tells of their existence at the edge of life and death

must be content with milder expeditions on lesser fells

Including beautiful photography

Polly Atkin's perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed

Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north

the traveller

fighting in Ireland

and contemporary records

their social origins

bin-foraging Nicky

pages from his father’s unpublished manuscript scattered like breadcrumbs