![]() You know, my nephew, he's 17, so there are more people in his generation now, in this community, who see college and some kind of, you know, life after college. ![]() On what DeLisle is like for young people now "I see history, I see racism, I see economic disempowerment, I see all of these things, you know, that come together, or that came together, sort of in this perfect storm here in southern Mississippi, and I feel like that is what is bearing down on our lives." Ward tells NPR's Rachel Martin that this epidemic of deaths is more than just a collection of individual choices. But even so, the place - and the memory of those she has lost - keeps pulling Ward back. ![]() It's a place ravaged by poverty, drugs and routine violence. In her wrenching new memoir, Men We Reaped, Ward takes us to her hometown of DeLisle, on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. First one friend died, then another and another - all young black men, and all of them dead before the age of 30. The writer Jesmyn Ward lost her brother in a car accident, and she was never the same - but her grief would broaden and her losses compound. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Men We Reaped Subtitle A Memoir Author Jesmyn Ward ![]()
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