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Author:

Ward, Jesmyn, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

289 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

African American families--Mississippi--Fiction.
Children of drug addicts--Fiction.
Grandparents as parents--Fiction.
Racially mixed children--Fiction.
Book club selection
FICTION--Literary.
FICTION--General.--General.
FICTION--Coming of Age.
African American families.
Children of drug addicts.
Grandparents as parents.
Racially mixed children.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
African American families--Fiction.
Mississippi--Fiction.
Mississippi--Fiction
Mississippi.
Mississippi--Fiction.
Fiction--Coming of Age.
Fiction--General.--General.
Fiction--Literary.
Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction.)
Suspense fiction.
Road fiction.
Fiction.
Road fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Road fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Road fiction.

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.

ISBN:

1501176668
9781501176661
1501126075
9781501126079
1501126067
9781501126062

LCCN:

2017039315

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KOPC446 -- H.J. Nugen Public Library (New London)