01170cam a2200301 i 4500 1262083439 TxAuBib 231011s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023169576 9781982104498 198210449X TxAuBib rda Ward, Jesmyn, author. Let us descend : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2023. 305 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world. Enslaved women Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Racially mixed people Fiction. Slavery United States Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.