By:
Jesmyn Ward
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The fifteen-year-old narrator, Esch, and her family struggle to get by as Hurricane Katrina draws closer. Her mother died while giving birth to her youngest brother, Junior, and her father has retreated into alcoholism. Her older brother, Randall, is a talented basketball player desperate to see if he has what it takes to make a career out of it. Skeetah, the second-eldest of Esch’s brothers, is the proud owner of a fighting dog named China who has just given birth to a litter of puppies.
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