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JESMYN WARD - GEBRAUCHT SING UNBURIED SING - PR...

_______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK
AWARD 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW
YORK TIMES  THE NEW STATESMAN  THE FINANCIAL TIMES  THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW  TIME AND
THE BBC _______________ 'A must' - Margaret Atwood 'A searing  urgent read' - Celeste Ng
'Staggering' - Marlon James 'Disarmingly beautiful' - Spectator 'Blazing with power  grief and
tenderness' - Financial Times _______________ An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale
of hope and struggle  Sing  Unburied  Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the
American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds. Jojo is thirteen years old
and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His mother  Leonie  is in constant conflict
with herself and those around her. She is black and her children's father is white. Embattled
in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances  she wants to be a better mother 
but can't put her children above her own needs  especially her drug use. When the children's
father is released from prison  Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives
north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm  the State Penitentiary. At Parchman  there
is another boy  the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South
with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons  about
legacies  about violence  about love. Rich with Ward's distinctive  lyrical language  Sing 
Unburied  Sing brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first century America.

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