Ep. 4 Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward — The Stacks Book Club (Sarah Fong)

 

 

On this week of The Stacks, PhD candidate Sarah Fong is back, and we’re talking about Jesmyn Ward’s memoir, Men We Reaped. Our conversation dives into the deaths of five Black men in Ward’s life, and what these deaths say about the greater experience of Black people in America. We discuss substance abuse, mental health, grief, systemic racism and a lot more.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” (Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda)
• “Black-ish” (ABC, S4. E16)
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• Lee Daniels
• Epigraph
• Upcoming The Stacks Book Club Picks for May

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