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WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK Prize for FICTION
Finalist for the Kirkus Award
Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal
Web publishers Weekly Top 10 10 of 2017 "The heart and soul of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is account - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the spaces we'll never fill up, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual and track...Ward's writing throbs with life, grief, and love, which book is the kind that makes you ache to come back to it." (Buzzfeed) In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American copy writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural 21st-century America. A romantic portrait of a family and an epic tale of wish and have difficulty, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi's history and present, examining the unappealing truths in the centre of the American account and the energy - and constraints - of family bonds. Jojo is 13 years of age and trying to understand what this means to be always a man. He doesn't shortage in fathers to study, chief included in this his black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent white daddy, Michael, who's being released from jail; his absent white grandfather, Big Joseph, who won't acknowledge his life; and the remembrances of his inactive uncle, Given, who died as an adolescent. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his young child sister's lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is black, and her children's daddy is white. She would like to be a better mother but can't put her children above her own needs, especially her medicine use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her inactive brother, which only come to her when she's high, Leonie is embattled in ways that represent the brutal actuality of her circumstances. Once the children's daddy is released from jail, Leonie packages her kids and a pal into her car and drives north to the heart and soul of Mississippi and Parchman Plantation, the state penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another 13-year-old boy, the ghost of the inactive inmate who provides every one of the ugly background of the South with him in his wandering. He, too, has something to instruct Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about assault, about love. Full with Ward's distinctive, lyrical vocabulary, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an remarkable family story.
