Jesmyn Ward - Salvage the Bones (2011)

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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.

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There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

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