Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781408890967
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
LONGLISTED 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

'Staggering' Marlon James

'A searing, urgent read' Celeste Ng

'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. Rich with Ward's distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first century America.