A review by kaileehaong
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

I love Jesmyn Ward. I read two of her novels prior to this memoir, and this one was just as much of a knockout as her fiction is. The writing is so raw and honest—heartbreaking and true. She connects the deaths of five men in her life, weaving personal history, narrative, storytelling, etc together to form this masterpiece of a memoir. She writes of being Black and poor in America and the intersecting points at which these people in her life, not characters, experience challenges, nuances, and even death because of their identities. It was a slow book to get into, but once I really sat down with it, wow.