Sing Unburied Sing
by Jesmyn Ward · 2017
Literary Fiction · ranked #111 in category
Thirteen-year-old Jojo, his toddler sister and their mother Leonie make a journey across Mississippi to collect Leonie's partner from prison, accompanied by the ghost of a boy who died in Parchman Farm decades earlier. Ward's National Book Award-winning novel weaves together the living and the dead in a meditation on race, grief and the specific inheritance of the American South.
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