![]() Salvage the Bones was published last summer to respectable reviews, but little was known about the author. Two days later, in her publisher's office, Ward is still acclimatising to the sudden interest. "I wanted," she said in her acceptance speech, "to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the south." And to prevent herself from freaking out, she fell back on something most novelists don't have recourse to: a martial-arts training. ![]() The 34-year-old outsider for the National Book Award had just won for her second novel, Salvage the Bones, about a family living in the path of Hurricane Katrina. W hen Jesmyn Ward stood blinking before the great and the good of US publishing at a restaurant in downtown Manhattan last week, she came as close as you can get in the book world to having a Gwyneth Paltrow moment. ![]()
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