Sing\, Unburied\, S ing by Jesmyn Ward
\n"In Jesmyn Ward&rsquo\;s first novel s ince her National Book Award&ndash\;winning \;Salvage the Bones\, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twen ty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner\, \;The Ody ssey \;and the Old Testament\, Ward gives us an epochal story\, a jour ney through Mississippi&rsquo\;s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a maj or American writer\, multiply awarded and universally lauded\, and in \;Sing\, Unburied\, Sing \;she is at the height of her powers.
\nJojo and his toddler sister\, Kayla\, live with their grandparents\, Mam and Pop\, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother\, Leon ie\, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother\, which only come t o her when she&rsquo\;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 w hite father of Leonie&rsquo\;s children is released from prison\, she pack s her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Par chman farm\, the Mississippi State Penitentiary\, on a journey rife with d anger and promise.
\nSing\, Unburied\, Sing \;grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power\, and limitat ions\, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward&rsquo\;s distinctive\, music al language\, \;Sing\, Unburied\, Sing \;is a majestic new work an d an essential contribution to American literature." - Goodreads
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