Let Us Descend is the story of Annis, an enslaved girl sold off by the plantation owner who fathered her, who serves as the reader’s guide through the nightmarish landscape of the 19th-century American South, as well as the spirit world beyond.
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward is back, after a six-year absence, with a reimagining of American slavery set in the years leading up to the Civil War. Having recently left the city, this love letter to Brooklyn is just what I need. It’s funny and wise and weird, and populated with chapter titles like How Much for the Dog? (1979) and No Name White Boys (generally) and Lies (whenever and wherever lies appear) and Having a Nemesis (subliminal). The latest novel from the bard of Brooklyn is a metafictional collage that tells the story of some fifty years in one neighborhood (roughly Cobble Hill).
New Daniel Clowes! ‘Nuff said, really, but if you need details, the latest book from the author of Ghost World is being described as a “genre-bending thriller” and also “a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined the medium-war, romance, horror, crime, the supernatural, etc -but in a mysterious, uncategorizable, and quintessentially Clowesian way that rewards multiple readings.” Can’t wait.
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