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Sing, unburied, sing : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Ward, Jesmyn, (author.).

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501126062
  • ISBN: 1501126067
  • Physical Description: 289 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
840L Lexile.
840L Lexile.
Awards Note:
2017 National Book Award Winner, Fiction.
Subject: African American children > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Drug addicts > Fiction.
Children of prisoners > Fiction.
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
African American families > Mississippi > Fiction.
Rural poor > Mississippi > Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
Road fiction.

Available copies

  • 16 of 17 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Blue Mountain Community College. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Blue Mountain Community College Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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