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Navigate Your Stars
- Author
- Jesmyn Ward
- Narrator
- Jesmyn Ward
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 30 April 2020
- Run Time
- 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
As an adult, I learned this: persist. Work hard.
Face rejection, weather the setbacks, until you meet the gatekeeper who will open a door for you.
Jesmyn Ward grew up in a poor, rural community in Mississippi. Today, as the first woman to win the National Book Award twice, she is celebrated as one of America’s greatest living writers.
Navigate Your Stars is a stirring reflection on the value of hard work and the importance of respect for oneself and others. First delivered as a 2018 commencement address at Tulane University, it captures Ward’s inimitable voice as she reflects on her experiences as a Southern black woman, addressing the themes of grit, adversity and the importance of family bonds.
This is a meditative and profound book that will inspire all readers preparing for the next chapter in their lives.
Critics Review
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Blazing with power, grief and tenderness. Ward takes the territory made so familiar by writers such as William Faulkner or Eudora Welty, and reclaims it
Financial Times
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Ward is a lyrical, visceral storyteller, one who is as adept at conveying the tenderness of sibling love as the terror and brutality of racist violence
Daily Mail
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Details
- Author
- Jesmyn Ward
- Narrator
- Jesmyn Ward
- Duration
- 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 April 2020
- ISBN
- 9781526620934
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Social discrimination and social justice, Poverty and precarity, Memoirs, Speeches
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Navigate Your Stars written and read by Jesmyn Ward.As an adult, I learned this: persist. Work hard. Face rejection, weather the setbacks, until you meet the gatekeeper who will open a door for you. Jesmyn Ward grew up in a poor, rural community in Mississippi. Today, as the first woman to win the National Book Award twice, she is celebrated as one of America’s greatest living writers.Navigate Your Stars is a stirring reflection on the value of hard work and the importance of respect for oneself and others. First delivered as a 2018 commencement address at Tulane University, it captures Ward’s inimitable voice as she reflects on her experiences as a Southern black woman, addressing the themes of grit, adversity and the importance of family bonds.This is a meditative and profound book that will inspire all readers preparing for the next chapter in their lives.
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