![]() ![]() As the novel progresses and Ward strips more and more away from her characters, saddling them with larger and more pressing horrors and traumas, Ward ultimately suggests that poverty is a vicious cycle of Job-like proportions one that the Batistes might be able to survive, but will never be able to escape. ![]() ![]() From Skeetah’s scheme to sell off China’s puppies to the four siblings’ organized raids on the houses of their nearby, better-off neighbors, the novel is full of the Batiste family’s increasingly desperate search for ways to survive in the unforgiving social, economic, and physical landscape they call home. While the approach of Hurricane Katrina galvanizes the Batistes against one very large and very real threat, even on ordinary days Esch, her Daddy, and her siblings are barely getting by, eager for new ways to reverse their fates and keep their clan together. The story of Salvage the Bones is ultimately the story of one impoverished family’s struggle for survival. ![]()
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