Brian and Barbara review Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward, number five on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of November 12, 2023, and the Oprah Bookclub pick for October, 2023.

Two-time National Book Award winning novelist Jesmyn Ward invites us to descend into the hell of race-based slavery in the antebellum South, telling the story of Annis, a young woman separated from her mother in the Carolinas and sold into the brutal sugar production economy of Louisiana.

Episode # 21 of bestseller, recorded 2/3/2024