The cover of Men We Reaped

Men We Reaped

What does it mean to grow up Black and poor in the South, where history, racism and poverty meet to set what a life is worth?

At a glance

Author
Jesmyn Ward

Why read it

  • You will see what the poverty and health numbers for a place mean in the lives of real families
  • You will learn to hear what is left unsaid when people talk about a dangerous place
  • You will understand how poverty, limited schooling and thin social support can cost lives

Who it is for

  • Someone who knows the poverty statistics but not the lives behind them
  • Someone from outside the South who wants to understand it from inside
  • Someone grieving a friend or sibling lost young

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. We Are in Wolf Town
  3. Roger Eric Daniels III
  4. We Are Born
  5. Demond Cook
  6. We Are Wounded
  7. Charles Joseph Martin
  8. We Are Watching
  9. Ronald Wayne Lizana
  10. We Are Learning
  11. Joshua Adam Dedeaux
  12. We Are Here

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