![]() ![]() She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. ![]() But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison his grandfather Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence and the memories of his uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi’s past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power – and limitations – of family bonds. 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. Synopsis: (as told by the back of the book) ![]()
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