{"product_id":"book-hba1","title":"Let Us Descend","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” —\u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e, Dante Alighieri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/em\u003e is a reimagining of American slavery. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the listener’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Ward leads one through the descent, this is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. \u003cem\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/em\u003e is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49346559312176,"sku":"40hba1","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49346559279408,"sku":"BDhba1","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/458549-hba1-Square.jpg?v=1734165525","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hba1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}