![]() ![]() ![]() Ward has a keen sense for the overwhelming adversity facing many of the people living in the oft-forgotten stretches of Mississippi, and portrays a harrowing panorama of the rural South. Jojo, whose mother Leonie is black and father Michael is white, sets out on a family odyssey with his mother and toddler sister Kayla: Michael is being released from prison, and Leonie is planning on being there to meet him. In this electric opening to Jesmyn Ward’s new novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward returns to the fictional town of Bois Sauvage from her previous novel along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and a land plagued by the compounding woe of an unjust society rife with addiction, destitution, virulent racism, and despair. EARLY IN THE MORNING on his 13th birthday, Jojo follows his grandfather out to the shed to watch him slaughter and skin one of the family’s goats. ![]()
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