03044cam a2200409 i 4500 365860094 TxAuBib 20171018120000.0 170816s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017039315 9781501126062 1501126067 9781501176661 1501176668 (OCoLC)1001340693 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO AZZPT YDX BTCTA BDX HQD VTL OI6 FMF DAD IUK CZA OEK TXCVP RB0 WYZ ZP7 CLU INR VP@ SINLB GZD TxAuBib rda Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, unburied, sing : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, [2017] 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20171018. African American children Fiction. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Drug addicts Fiction. Children of prisoners Fiction. Grandparent and child Fiction. African American families Mississippi Fiction. African American families Fiction. Rural poor Mississippi Fiction. Gulf Coast (Miss) Fiction. Mississippi Fiction.