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The Book The Book
 About the book selection for this year
The book selection for the 2012–13 academic year is Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward. Salvage the Bones, winner of the 2011 National Book Award, explores a family’s struggle to find meaning in the days leading up to, and immediately following, Hurricane Katrina. The book is an unflinching look at rural poverty, sacrifice, and the human condition in general, during a time of crisis. About the author
Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won five of the school’s esteemed Hopwood Awards for essays, drama, and fiction. Ward was the recipient of the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford and is currently the John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds, was an Essence Magazine Book Club selection, a Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award recipient, and finalist for both the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
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