# @pghartslectures on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-04-22T17:21:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures (@PghArtsLectures) — https://gondola.cc/PghArtsLectures

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Get ready: May 13 marks the final Ten Evenings event of the season! 💜 Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward takes the Carnegie Music Hall stage at 7:30. We'll also announce next season's lineup—you don't want to miss it! In-person tickets and online access passes are available at pittsburghlectures.org 🔗 

Jesmyn Ward will discuss her newest novel, LET US DESCEND, a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, and replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. This miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. 

Jesmyn Ward is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for SING, UNBURIED, SING (2017) and SALVAGE THE BONES (2011). She is also the author of WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS and MEN WE REAPED, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award.

You can purchase LET US DESCEND and other Jesmyn Ward titles from whitewhalebks 📚

This Ten Evenings event is sponsored by UPMC, with additional support from FHLBank Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Library System.

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