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Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.
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FICTION / African American / General, Suspense fiction, FICTION / Literary, African American families, FICTION / Coming of Age, Fiction, Drug addicts, Children of drug addicts, Large type books, Fiction, family life, Mississippi, fiction, African americans, fiction, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2017-10-15, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Grandparents as parents, Racially mixed children, Book club selection, FICTION, Literary, African American, General, Coming of Age, Fiction / african american / general, Fiction / literary, African american families, Fiction / coming of age, Nyt:hardcover-fiction=2017-10-15, New york times bestseller, New york times reviewedPlaces
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Sing, unburied, sing
2018, Wheeler Publishing Large Print, Large Print Press
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
May 08, 2018, Simon & Schuster Audio
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
September 5, 2017, Scribner, Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
2017, Scribner
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Sing, unburied, sing: a novel
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
Nov 11, 2017, Scribner
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A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers.
Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out for Parchman Farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.
Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the truths at the heart of the American story and the power and limitations of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.
This description comes from the 2017 Scribner edition.
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