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Sing, unburied, sing : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501126062
- ISBN: 1501126067
- ISBN: 9781501126062 : HRD
- ISBN: 1501126067 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781501126062 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1501126067 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781501126079 (trade paper)
- ISBN: 1501126075 (trade paper)
- ISBN: 9781501176661
- ISBN: 1501176668
- Physical Description: 289 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2017.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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| Subject: | African American families > Mississippi > Fiction. Mississippi > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Road fiction. |
Available copies
- 60 of 76 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bethel Public Library. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 10 current holds with 76 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethel Public Library | WARD (Text) | 34030141661154 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ansonia Public Library | FIC WARD, JESMYN (Text) | 34045126323935 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Babcock Library - Ashford | F War (Text) | 33110140758747 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC WAR (Text) | 33120000384013 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F WARD J (Text) | 32544072470551 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC War Bois Sauvage; bk.2 (Text) | 33160155057584 | Adult New Material | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF WAR (Text) | 33260000251273 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/WARD (Text) | 34029141056837 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC WARD (Text) | 36937002150846 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | FIC WARD (Text) | 34000081240764 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel
Jesmyn Ward was born in DeLisle, Mississippi in 1977. She became a writer after the death of her brother by a drunk driver. She received a MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Her books include the novel Where the Line Bleeds, the memoir Men We Reaped, and the nonfiction work The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. Salvage the Bones won the National Book Award in Fiction in 2011 and an Alex Award in 2012. Sing, Unburied, Sing won the National Book Award in Fiction in 2017. She taught at University of New Orleans, the University of South Alabama, and Tulane University. (Bowker Author Biography)
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