Thacker Mountain Radio LIVE in Ocean Springs

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to the Mississippi Gulf Coast for a very special show at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS with two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward!

Jesmyn Ward is the author of the novel, Let Us Descend (Scribner’s), now available in paperback.  Let Us Descend describes a journey by an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. The reader is taken from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.  This journey is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching. NPR called it, “[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours.”   The book was an Oprah’s Book Club Pick, an instant New York Times bestseller, and winner of the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction.  Let…