Men We Reaped By: Jesmyn Ward | Audiobooks – Biographical | MP3@48.0kb/s | 180.81 MiB
2013-12-26 | ASIN: B00HHGDUNO | english | 8h42m
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.” (Harriet Tubman)
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life – to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth – and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own.
Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.
664K 01. Introduction.mp3 6.0M 02. Prologue.mp3 8.1M 03. We Are in Wolf Town.mp3 17M 04. Roger Eric Daniels III.mp3 15M 05. We Are Born.mp3 14M 06. Demond Cook.mp3 16M 07. We Are Wounded.mp3 18M 08. Charles Joseph Martin.mp3 25M 09. We Are Watching.mp3 13M 10. Ronald Wayne Lizana.mp3 23M 11. We Are Learning.mp3 16M 12. Joshua Adam Dedeaux.mp3 13M 13. We Are Here.mp3 181M total
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