![]() ![]() The story concludes with the calming of Katrina, the family returning home, shocked by the damage to their community, and anxiously await for China to return to them. ![]() By the end of the novel, Daddy has found out and eventually vows to care for Esch and her unborn child. ![]() At only fifteen years old, and emotionally invested in her casual relationship with him, she is terrified. Throughout the novel, Esch is also dealing with a problem of her own: she is pregnant with her brother Randall’s friend, Manny’s, child. When the family’s house floods and they are forced to swim to a nearby higher house, China comes loose and gets lost in the water, devastating the family. When one of her puppies falls ill with Parvovirus, Skeetah, Esch’s brother, devises a way to steal medicine from the white neighbors. ![]() Throughout the novel, China is a significant figure, as she is so important to the family. Ward begins by writing of the family’s dog, China, giving birth. Each of the twelve chapters conveys the events of a single day, as told from the perspective of Esch, a fifteen year-old-girl living in Mississippi with her daddy and teenage brothers. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones illustrates one family’s experience of Hurricane Katrina in the days surrounding the disaster. Location: Residence Hall Florida Ave Circulating Collection ![]()
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