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Jesmyn Ward: The next Toni Morrison?

With her second and highly personal novel (Salvage the Bones), the 34-year-old author has won the National Book Award, and the attention of a literary world more accustomed to successful authors of majority culture. The novelist talks with Keli Goff of Loop21 about her book, the future and issues with The Help. In Word

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