Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

272 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South. "We saw the lightning and that was the guns; an...

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Moods

emotional 90%
sad 83%
reflective 74%
challenging 39%
dark 39%
informative 23%
tense 10%
inspiring 6%
hopeful 4%
funny 1%

Pace

medium 69%
slow 18%
fast 12%

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