Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel / Jesmyn Ward - New York : Scribner , 2017 - 289 p. ; 22 cm
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, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family.
English.
9781501126062
African American families---Mississippi----Fiction
Coming of age---Fiction
Mississippi----Fiction
PS3623.A7323 / S56 2017
FIC WAR
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel / Jesmyn Ward - New York : Scribner , 2017 - 289 p. ; 22 cm
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, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family.
English.
9781501126062
African American families---Mississippi----Fiction
Coming of age---Fiction
Mississippi----Fiction
PS3623.A7323 / S56 2017
FIC WAR
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