On Witness And Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed By Pandemic

NOVELIST JESMYN WARD exposes her Shattered heart in vanity fair.

On the Sea of Time, 2020, acrylic on canvas.Painting by Calida Rawles, via Vanity Fair

Vantity Fair published this gut wrenching essay by the acclaimed novelist Jesmyn Ward as part of The Great Fire Project, the September 2020 issue guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In it, Ward writes through the compounding tragedies of losing her beloved husband and reckoning with centuries of racial injustice. Read it right here.