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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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