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| Original Title: | Sing, Unburied, Sing |
| ISBN: | 1501126067 (ISBN13: 9781501126062) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Bois Sauvage #2 |
| Setting: | Mississippi(United States) Gulf Coast, Mississippi |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction (2017), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2018), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2018), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2017) Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2018), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2018), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017), NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2018), Book of the Month Book of the Year Award Nominee (2017), Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017), Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018) |
Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover | Pages: 285 pages Rating: 4.02 | 93609 Users | 11749 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bois Sauvage #2) |
| Author | : | Jesmyn Ward |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 285 pages |
| Published | : | September 5th 2017 by Scribner |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Magical Realism. Literary Fiction |
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A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.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. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers.
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. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.
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Ratings: 4.02 From 93609 Users | 11749 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bois Sauvage #2)
just because they are black and from a small backwoods country town, doesn't mean they wouldn't know "SAT" words. extremely presumptuous of you.
I don't know if I even feel up to the task of writing a review for this amazing novel. I started this one yesterday and I could not put this book down. Sing Unburied Sing is stunning, gripping, haunting, beautifully written, compelling and filled with complex characters. I'm usually put off by magical realism in books but I think it only added to the poetic and searing storytelling. Highly Recommended!Read for the African-American Historical Fiction Bookclub.2018 Badass Books Challenge: A book
Profound, poetic, and at times painful to read, Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is searing, truly a soaring literary achievement that I won't stop thinking about anytime soon.Jojo is 13 years old, on the cusp of manhood but in some ways still very much a child, longing for the security and comfort of an easier time in his life. He and his younger sister Kayla (short for Michaela) have essentially been raised by their grandparents, since their mother Leonie is often absent, either physically
I listened to the audiobook of "Salvage the Bones", a couple of months ago. I was so engrossed, it was almost hard to distinguish one talent from the other: the narrators voice or the authors writing. Jesmyn Ward was a new author to me. I remember I cringed at times - and thought the language was beautiful. NO SPOILERS .....many other reviews came before me - excellent ones describing the plot and sharing about the characters. I read Michael's review which had me running to find this book on
Beautifully written. So many layers. I don't know that there is another writer who captures the complexities of the south and the legacies of racism as well as Ward. This is a brilliant novel. But also, I did want the characters and the overall narrative to be more fully developed, or perhaps more multi-dimensional. An absolute must-read, regardless.
A snapshot of a family in crisis, Sing, Unburied, Sing reckons with the legacy of racial injustice in the Deep South. The novel follows thirteen-year-old Jojo and his mother Leonie as the pair drives north to retrieve Jojo's white father from prison upon his release. On the road, Leonie struggles to care for Jojo's younger sister, Kayla, forcing Jojo to help care for her; Jojo resents his mother's inability to parent her children, as well as her addiction to cocaine. Both mother and son also are
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