Book guide
Salvage the Bones
As Katrina gathers force, one family fights to survive what is already breaking them.
Genre and trope pairingsLiterarySmall townLiteraryComing of ageLiteraryFamily sagaContemporary FictionSmall townContemporary FictionComing of ageContemporary FictionFamily saga
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About Salvage the Bones
In Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Esch and her brothers prepare for a hurricane with little food, little help, and a father barely able to hold the family together. Ward’s National Book Award-winning novel follows twelve tense days of poverty, pregnancy, loyalty, and fierce familial love.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Series
Bois Sauvage · Book 2 of 3
Content warnings
- animal cruelty
- animal death
- rape
- sexual assault
- pregnancy
- blood
- alcoholism
- death
- death of parent
- injury detail
- child sexual assault
- natural disaster
