Where the Line Bleeds
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Overview
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict
Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Over the course of a single, life-changing summer, as they struggle to find work and contend with the reappearance of their parents – Cille, who left town for a better job, and Sandman, a dangerous addict – the brothers are forced into a series of decisions that will ultimately damn or save them.
A delicate and closely observed portrait of fraternal love and strife and the bonds that can sustain and torment us, Where the Line Bleeds marks the beginning of Jesmyn Ward's extraordinary career in fiction.
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict
The first novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward
Focuses on the same fictional Mississippi community as Ward's Salvage the Bones, winner of the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, winner of the 2017 National Book Award
One of the most important writers in America today
A writer of such lyric imagination
The voices, relationships and histories of [Ward's] characters feel wholly true ... Long after the end, we continue to worry after them, love them in spite of their faults, and feel their pain
The heir to Faulkner
A lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality that are rarely depicted
An important new voice of the American South – one developing, perhaps, into the twenty-first-century's answer to William Faulkner
Ward takes the territory made so familiar by writers such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and reclaims it
- Title: Where the Line Bleeds
- Author: Jesmyn Ward
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408899830, 9781408899823, 1408899825, 1408899833
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408899830
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:51:53Z
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.