Where the Line Bleeds: A Novel

Where the Line Bleeds: A NovelThe first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflicta lyrical yet clear eyed portrait of a rural South and an African American reality that are rarely depicted (The Boston Globe). Where the Line Bleeds is Jesmyn Wards gorgeous first novel and the first of three novels set in Bois Sauvagefollowed by Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied,

Where once Tembi was estranged from Saro's family

Willie gave up her burgeoning journalism career to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia and she has reluctantly put family first

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit

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Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that's holding her back: she's never dated anyone with money before

she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened

the only woman in her news office

She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love

once out of the water

For readers of African diasporic authors such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie