Where the Line Bleeds Audiobook

Quotes

• “A fresh new voice in American literature, Ward unflinchingly describes a world full of despair but not devoid of hope.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “A resonant novel for any reader.”

  — Booklist

• “Bursting with life—joyous, loving, frustrated and furious—Where the Line Bleeds marks the forceful debut of an exceptional new talent. Jesmyn Ward's vision is at once searingly honest and sweepingly empathetic. Her vibrant portrait of a Mississippi Gulf Coast town is peopled by some of the most movingly, achingly human characters I've encountered in fiction in years.”

  — Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl

• “Jesmyn Ward's debut novel is eloquent in its description of young lives at risk; she's authoritative both when writing of the doomed and prospect of salvation. The lyric gifts displayed in Where The Line Bleeds are very impressive indeed, and the world evoked—the rural south, with its complex web of family devotion and betrayal—is vivid from first page to last. A major talent here.”

  — Nicholas Delbanco, author of Spring and Fall, and The Count of Concord

• “The plot is as leisurely as a hot Mississippi summer day, and although not much happens until the somewhat violent and surprising ending, this fully realized character study will appeal to teens who can see themselves here or who are interested in discovering realities far from their own lives.”

  — School Library Journal

• “Lushly descriptive prose…with stunning precision. Her prodigious talent and fearless portrayal of a world too often overlooked make her novel a powerful choice for our seventeenth Essence Book Club Recommended Read.”

  — Essence

• “A lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African American reality that are rarely depicted.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A richly textured tale...like the best fiction, [it] creates its own world.”

  — New Orleans Times-Picayune