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

Ward, Jesmyn, (author.).

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501126062
  • ISBN: 1501126067
  • ISBN: 9781501126079
  • ISBN: 1501126075
  • ISBN: 9781501176661
  • ISBN: 1501176668
  • Physical Description: 289 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2017.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
840L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.4 12 196197.
Awards Note:
National Book Award for Fiction, 2017
Subject:
African American families > Mississippi > Fiction.
Children of drug addicts > Fiction.
Grandparents as parents > Fiction.
Multiracial children > Fiction
African Americans.
African American authors.
African American Interest.
African American women > Fiction.
Women, Black > Fiction.
African American young men > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
African American families > Fiction.
African American boys > Fiction.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Genre:
Thrillers (Fiction)
Road fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction
Fiction.
Urban fiction.

Available copies

  • 109 of 116 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Madison County Public Library.

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Albemarle Main Library FIC Ward (Text) 31010000604860 Adult Fiction Available -
Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library F WARD (Text) 39493108226137 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Main Library F Ward (Text) 34269001228874 Adult Fiction Available -
Andrews Public Library F WAR (Text) 80605000767631 Adult Fiction Available -
Annie Hubbard McEachern Public Library F WARD (Text) 34510000579514 Adult Fiction Available -
Ashe County Public Library F WAR (Text) 50503300429315 Adult Fiction Available -
Avery County Morrison Public Library FIC WAR (Text) 31111002970182 Adult Fiction Available -
Bailey Public Library FIC Ward (Text) 37807000006309 Adult Fiction Available -
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