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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

3 reviews

ginadapooh's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Classism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and Alcoholism

e1oise's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is very graphic and moves very slowly. There is not much development given to any characters except the protagonist. I would recommend this book for people who like intense reads, and want to see what it is like to lives as a very poor family in the south. This book shares many important lessons about families, motherhood, and domestic violence.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident, Xenophobia, and Drug use

n_asyikin_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Written with incredible vividness, Ward has a truly a unique narrator in Esch. The effortlessness in expressions celebrates the malleability of language. I found myself gasping in awe at some passages. The cost of survival-needs induced by poverty through the loss of affection and hardening of the heart was explored, & depicted through parent-child & familial bonds - also, through the experience of first love. Although the lyricism did at times suspended the flow of the story (i.e. plot), it wasn't highly disruptive & the solid ending more than made-up for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Abortion