Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward children Rachel mourns the fact that

Rachel mourns the fact that her birth father

When he opens up a shop of his own

Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her

separated by an impossible divide

and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws

Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward children Rachel mourns the fact thatLet 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,