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Men We Reaped: A Memoir Reviews Borrow By Jesmyn Ward. From Bloomsbury USA.  (15 reviews) Amazon rank #22,892“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.” —Harriet Tubman In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life—to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? |
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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