美国年轻黑人女作家杰斯敏·沃德以她的第二部小说《拯救骨肉》摘得了2011年美国国家图书奖最佳小说奖的桂冠。小说采用写实主义手法,巧妙地运用隐喻的修辞方法,大胆谈论争议话题,真实地描述了美国南部小镇的贫穷与人们在自然灾难中显示出的亲情。 Jess Young Ward, a young American black woman writer, won the 2011 American National Book Award for Best Novel with her second novel, Save the Flesh. The novel adopts the realism approach, cleverly uses the metaphorical rhetorical method, boldly discusses the controversial topic, and realizes the poverty of the small towns in the southern part of the United States and the affection shown by the people in natural disasters.