Through loss, Jesmyn Ward will always return to the word
Jesmyn Ward’s new essay collection, On Witness and Respare, grapples with profound grief, racial injustice, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Through personal loss and historical reckoning, she finds resilience in language, community, and the act of bearing witness.
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