Book review: “Men We Reaped” by Jesmyn Ward
The last chapter of Jesmyn Ward’s memoir, “Men We Reaped,” begins with a litany of statistics “about what it means to be Black and poor in the south.” The numbers mount like burdens on an already-bent back: high rates of poverty, incarceration and illiteracy, low rankings in education and standard of living. Each one bows …