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Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward
$10.90
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing

Haunting journey through family, legacy, and race.

If you're drawn to stories that deeply explore the intersections of family, race, and the legacy of the American South, "Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward may resonate with you. The prose is poetic and immersive, making the characters’ struggles and internal worlds incredibly vivid. Especially in a time when examining the complexities of identity and belonging is more relevant than ever, Jesmyn Ward offers a narrative that is both a harsh reflection of societal issues and a tender tale of familial bonds.

  • National Book Award for Fiction (2017)
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2018)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2018)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2018)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Book of the Month Book of the Year Award Nominee (2017)
  • Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award (2019)
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Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward
$10.90
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ISBN: 9781501126079
Authors: Jesmyn Ward
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 2018-05-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Race, Literature, Literary Criticism
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 147609 readers)

Description

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 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. Sing,
 

Haunting journey through family, legacy, and race.

If you're drawn to stories that deeply explore the intersections of family, race, and the legacy of the American South, "Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward may resonate with you. The prose is poetic and immersive, making the characters’ struggles and internal worlds incredibly vivid. Especially in a time when examining the complexities of identity and belonging is more relevant than ever, Jesmyn Ward offers a narrative that is both a harsh reflection of societal issues and a tender tale of familial bonds.

  • National Book Award for Fiction (2017)
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2018)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2018)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2018)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Book of the Month Book of the Year Award Nominee (2017)
  • Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
  • Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.