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A message to the parents trying to ban an award-winning novel they clearly haven’t read 

Jesmyn Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” begins with a birth. 15-year-old Esch, her brothers, Skeetah, Randall, Junior, and their father watch in a small, dilapidated shed as China, Skeetah’s white Pitbull, delivers puppies for the first time. One comes into the…

A message to the parents trying to ban an award-winning novel they clearly haven’t read 

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