(That Michael, locked away for his own adventures in amphetamines, belongs to the white family responsible for Given’s death isn’t something she wants to discuss.) And then there’s Richie, a little boy who doesn’t strictly exist, or hasn’t for at least half a century. Absorbing the harsh beauty of her writing isn’t easy. Combining stark circumstances with magical realism, it illuminates Americas love-hate tug between the. Her first narrator, 13-year-old Jojo, is the parent to his baby sister, Kayla, that his mother Leonie - she’s the second - can’t be she’s too in love with Jojo’s absent father, Michael, and the drugs that take her away from the grief of losing her adored older brother, Given. Ward, whose Salvage the Bones won a National Book Award, has emerged as one of the most searing and singularly gifted writers working today. Sing, Unburied, Sing is nothing short of magnificent. But the voice is entirely Ward’s own, a voluptuous magical realism that takes root in the darkest corners of human behavior.

Set on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi (a place rich in oil rigs and atmosphere, if almost nothing else), the book’s Southern gothic aura recalls the dense, head-spinning prose of William Faulkner or Flannery O’Connor. Smith, in her review of the novel for The New York Times Book Review, says of the fictional town Bois Sauvage, Miss.: It is as mired in its own history as, frankly, most real places. Sing, Unburied, Sing book by Jesmyn Ward ReadingRewards: Earn 2x points on all Childrens Books Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.99 - 23.75 Paperback 4.39 - 15.52 Audio CD 5.19 - 5.49 Library Binding 5.69 - 6. Ghosts, literal and literary, haunt nearly every page of Sing, Unburied, Sing - a novel whose boundaries between the living and the dead shift constantly, like smoke or sand.

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