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The searing and profound odyssey of a Southern family—by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Wards's first novel since her National Book Award-winner, Salvage the Bones , she returns to Mississippi and the grand themes of her earlier work. Confronting the realities of life in the rural South, Ward gives us an epochal story, a road novel through Mississippi's past and present that explores the bonds of family as tested by racism and poverty. Told in Ward's rich, lyrical language, this majestic novel is impossible to ignore. For Pop and Mam, their daughter Leonie, and her kids Jojo and Kayla, life is hard: Mam has cancer, Pop is preoccupied by working their small parcel of land, Leonie has a meth problem, and Jojo and Kayla seek love from their grandparents rather than their absent mother. Their lives are further complicated when Leonie gets the call from the white father of her children that he's up for parole. She quickly gathers her kids,...

Who reads Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel?

Author

Jesmyn Ward; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501126093

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14