Let Us Descend (Oprah's Book Club) -- Jesmyn Ward, Hardcover Claud Track: 1 - World Go

Track: 1 - World Go Round

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From debut author Cristiana JaNell comes a seductive

secretly keeps a journal recounting what she remembers--and revealing just what she has forgotten

Track: 8 - Where You're at

Let Us Descend (Oprah's Book Club) -- Jesmyn Ward, Hardcover Claud Track: 1 - World GoFrom Jesmyn Ward the two time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. "'Let us descend, ' the poet now began, 'and enter this blind world.'" Inferno, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart