![]() ![]() Jesmyn Ward transported me into the eye of the storm and the depth of the flood, much like Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” I came to Esch’s story this summer, four years after its publication, and could not put it down. It intensely combines poetic phrasing and visceral imagery to deliver punch after gut punch. “Salvage the Bones” takes place over the 12 days leading up to and just after Katrina hit. Her love, her Jason, put a baby in her but doesn't want it, and she’s learning how to exist while staring down a storm. ![]() These goddesses become her mama, and she looks to them as she navigates unrequited love and mounting confusion over the treacherous world both in and outside of her body. Io, who made a god’s heart hot with love Artemis, who turned a man into a deer and had her dogs tear him cartilage from bone Demeter, who made time stop when her daughter was stolen.” “he trickster nymphs, the ruthless goddesses, the world-uprooting mothers. ![]()
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