Sing, unburied, sing

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Jesmyn Ward: Sing, unburied, sing (2018)

367 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-4328-4652-7
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OCLC Number:
1002692592

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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.

8 editions

Subjects

  • Large type books
  • African American families
  • Fiction

Places

  • Mississippi