![]() He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. ![]() Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. 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. *Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardĪ finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” ( O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic. *Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize *A TIME MAGAZINE BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 OF 2017 *WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION ![]()
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