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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Mississippi road trip. The living and the dead, together.
For you if
you want to understand the American South as a place still haunted by what it did and refuses to fully name
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Mississippi, present day. Jojo is thirteen, mixed-race, being raised by his Black grandparents while his mother Leonie — addicted, unreliable, beautiful — drives them across the state to pick up his white father from prison. The dead travel alongside the living. Ward writes the South as a haunted landscape where the violence of the past is not metaphor — it is present, insistent, and requires acknowledgment before it will let the living be. National Book Award winner.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
- Themes
- War & DisplacementGenerations
