{"product_id":"let-us-descend","title":"Let Us Descend","description":"\u003cp\u003eLet Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnnis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’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 of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jesmyn Ward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51554357838040,"sku":"9781526666765","price":570.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0807\/5572\/0408\/files\/71wM1-tqvHL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776508314","url":"https:\/\/www.abcacademic.com\/products\/let-us-descend","provider":"Academic Bookshop Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}