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Men We Reaped
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Critic reviews
"[A] torrential, sorrowing tribute to five young Black men [...] Ward tells their stories with tenderness and reverence; they live again in these pages.... This work of great grief and beauty renders them individual and irreplaceable." (New York Times, 50 Best Memoirs)
"Men We Reaped reaffirms Ms. Ward's substantial talent. It's an elegiac book that's rangy at the same time. She thinks back about her brother, and about her old dead friends, and about their nighttime adventures in cars. Then she declares, 'I don't ride with anyone like that anymore." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
"Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn unburies her dead, that they may live again. And through this emotional excavation, she forces us to see the problems of place and race that led these men to their early graves. Full of beauty, love, and dignity, Men We Reaped is a haunting and essential read." (Natasha Trethewey, US Poet Laureate, author of Thrall and Native Guard, winner of the Pulitizer Prize)