Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina |
Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina
PBS NewsHour
2015-08-24
Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor & Managing Editor
Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English 
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother’s house, she wrote “Salvage the Bones,” an award-winning novel about a Mississippi family in the days leading up to the devastating storm. She joins Gwen Ifill to discuss how the storm affected the rural poor who could not escape, and now, who may not be able to return.
Read the transcript here.
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