Navigate Your Stars Jesmyn Ward Gina Triplett Illustration by Jesmyn Ward, Gina Triplett (illustration) 9781982131340, 1982131349 instant download after payment.

For Tulane University’s 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring speech about the value of hard work & the importance of respect for oneself & others. Speaking about the challenges she & her family overcame, Ward inspired everyone in the audience with her meditation on tenacity in the face of hardship. Ward’s moving words will inspire readers as they prepare for the next chapter in their lives, whether, like Ward, they are the first in their families to graduate from college or are preceded by generations, or whether they are embarking on a different kind of journey later in life.

Beautifully illustrated in full color by Gina Triplett, this gorgeous & profound book will charm a generation of students—& their parents. Ward’s inimitable voice shines through as she shares her experience as a Southern black woman & addresses the themes of grit, adversity, & the importance of family bonds. Navigate Your Stars is a perfect gift for anyone in need of inspiration. 

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Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan & is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds. She is the historic winner—first woman & first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) & Salvage the Bones (2011). 

She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time & the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts & Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award.