Family Drama

Where the Line Bleeds

by Jesmyn Ward · Bois Sauvage series

Twin brothers in a Mississippi town gutted by Katrina, trying to hold together a family unraveling under poverty and addiction. Ward's first novel set in the fictional Bois Sauvage—spare, devastating, and rooted in the Gulf South's long recovery.

Bois Sauvage in reading order

• 1. Where the Line Bleeds — Jesmyn Ward
• 2. La canción de los vivos y los muertos — Jesmyn Ward

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