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A review by savaging
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
4.0
There are some things that are so beautiful about this book -- the trees! the dogs! the brothers! But sometimes the author is so focused on tiny gleaming details that I don't know if it's day or night or what any bodies are actually doing. Some readers like that sensory disorientation, but I get can get frustrated and bored. Another hard thing: so much misery. Yes beauty too, yes love. But also endless misery.
I loved the book's meditation on the beauty and terror and power of motherhood -- but sometimes felt a little squeamish, like maybe it was slipping over into sort of a conservative view of women's roles. I'll probably keep reading the series, because it's respectful of swamps and so few books are.
I loved the book's meditation on the beauty and terror and power of motherhood -- but sometimes felt a little squeamish, like maybe it was slipping over into sort of a conservative view of women's roles. I'll probably keep reading the series, because it's respectful of swamps and so few books are.