![]() ![]() JEFFREY BROWN: You did it through the experience of one family, so it’s a small story within the much larger one. The storm was really terrifying and harrowing, and afterward I felt like that was something I needed to write about. ![]() The storm occurred during the summer between my last year of my MFA program and then my first year teaching at the University of Michigan and I decided to stay for the storm instead of heading to Michigan, which wasn’t a good idea. JESMYN WARD: I was home during the storm. JEFFREY BROWN: It sounds as though Katrina, the power of it for everyone, including your own personal experience, compelled you to write this? How did this start? Ward received an MFA from the University of Michigan and has just started as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama at Mobile. Her first, “Where the Line Bleeds,” tells the story of two twin brothers growing up in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, the setting for all of her fiction and based on her own hometown. “Salvage the Bones” is Ward’s second novel. Ward, who grew up in Mississippi, was home for the summer in 2005 and survived during the devastating storm with her own family. ![]() ![]() “Salvage the Bones,” a new novel by Jesmyn Ward, tells the story of a Mississippi Gulf Coast family in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in the U.S. ![]()
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