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Sing, unburied, sing : a novel

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"--

Record details

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