10 Lessons From the Book Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

10 Lessons From the Book Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward is the story of her life and who he lost five young males from her life.

But I am not that eloquent, so I shut my mouth and smile.

Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts.

Because we trusted nothing, we endeavored to protect ourselves, boys becoming misogynistic and violent, girls turning duplicitous, all of us hopeless.

The burden of regret weighs heavily. It is relentless.

It was easier and harder to be male; men were given more freedom but threatened with less freedom.

She took what my grandfather left her with, and she built it into something more, and she survived.

He taught me love is stronger than death

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