Further, the erasure of black histories is brought to stark attention through the framing of a distinct community and its relationships prior to Katrina.
In exploring these relationships, Ward’s narrative disrupts imagined states of race and class that are prescribed to the storm’s after-effects. The impending arrival of Hurricane Katrina foregrounds the dynamics between protagonist Esch, her family, and the “natural” surroundings of Mississippi. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage The Bones explores life in the South through an atemporal lens, scattered with historical traces that seep into the book’s setting.
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