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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

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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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This wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare. A must Margaret Atwood Twitter

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Ward, Jesmyn
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur ´Genius´ Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the first female author to win two National Book Awards for Fiction, for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) - which was also shortlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction (2018) - and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time, the author of the memoir Men We Reaped and the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

@jesmimi

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