Sing, Unburied, Sing

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Sing, Unburied, SingISBN13:9781501126062ISBN10:1501126067Author:Ward, Jesmyn (Author)Description:*Winner Of The National Book Award For Fiction *A Time Magazine Best Novel Of The Year And A New York Times Top 10 Of 2017 *Finalist For The Kirkus Prize *Finalist For The Andrew Carnegie Medal *Finalist For The Aspen Words Literary Prize *Publishers Weekly Top 10 Of 2017 *Finalist For The National Book Critics Circle Award The Heart Of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing Is Story--The Yearning For A Narrative To Help Us Understand Ourselves, The Pain Of The Gaps We'll Never Fill, The Truths That Are Failed By Words And Must Be Translated Through Ritual And Song Ward's Writing Throbs With Life, Grief, And Love, And This Book Is The Kind That Makes You Ache To Return To It --Buzzfeed In Jesmyn Ward's First Novel Since Her National Book Award-Winning Salvage The Bones, This Singular American Writer Brings The Archetypal Road Novel Into Rural Twenty-First-Century America An Intimate Portrait Of A Family And An Epic Tale Of Hope And Struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing Journeys Through Mississippi's Past And Present, Examining The Ugly Truths At The Heart Of The American Story And The Power--And Limitations--Of Family Bonds Jojo Is Thirteen Years Old And Trying To Understand What It Means To Be A Man He Doesn't Lack In Fathers To Study, Chief Among Them His Black Grandfather, Pop But There Are Other Men Who Complicate His Understanding: His Absent White Father, Michael, Who Is Being Released From Prison; His Absent White Grandfather, Big Joseph, Who Won't Acknowledge His Existence; And The Memories Of His Dead Uncle, Given, Who Died As A Teenager His Mother, Leonie, Is An Inconsistent Presence In His And His Toddler Sister's Lives She Is An Imperfect Mother In Constant Conflict With Herself And Those Around Her She Is Black And Her Children's Father Is White She Wants To Be A Better Mother But Can't Put Her Children Above Her Own Needs, Especially Her Drug Use Simultaneously Tormented And Comforted By Visions Of Her Dead Brother, Which Only Come To Her When She's High, Leonie Is Embattled In Ways That Reflect The Brutal Reality Of Her Circumstances When The Children's Father Is Released From Prison, Leonie Packs Her Kids And A Friend Into Her Car And Drives North To The Heart Of Mississippi And Parchman Farm, The State Penitentiary At Parchman, There Is Another Thirteen-Year-Old Boy, The Ghost Of A Dead Inmate Who Carries All Of The Ugly History Of The South With Him In His Wandering He Too Has Something To Teach Jojo About Fathers And Sons, About Legacies, About Violence, About Love Rich With Ward's Distinctive, Lyrical Language, Sing, Unburied, Sing Is A Majestic New Work And An Unforgettable Family Story Binding:Hardcover, HardcoverPublisher:SCRIBNER BOOKS COPublication Date:2017-09-05Weight:1 lbsDimensions:1.1'' H x 8.5'' L x 5.8'' WNumber of Pages:304Language:English

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