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“I didn’t understand that I had to be ruthless. I didn’t understand that my job as a writer wasn’t to coddle my characters and create these fairy tales for them to live.” At Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Jesmyn Ward and Edwidge Danticat discuss writing about their homes and the power of place.
Tags: 2015 | Random House | Bloomsbury | Brown University | Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | Men We Reaped | Edwidge Danticat | Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America | Writing for a Broken World | Ralph Rodriguez | Brother, I'm Dying | The Fire This Time | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction -
In the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine Jesmyn Ward discusses her new memoir, Men We Reaped. This video clip shows the author reading from Salvage the Bones, a novel for which she won the 2011 National Book Award.
