000800657 000__ 02984cam\a2200409\i\4500 000800657 001__ 800657 000800657 005__ 20210515135228.0 000800657 008__ 170816s2017\\\\nyu\\\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\\ 000800657 010__ $$a 2017039315 000800657 019__ $$a962009683$$a980974665$$a981581608$$a1001841673$$a1002074309 000800657 020__ $$a9781501126062$$q(hardcover) 000800657 020__ $$a1501126067$$q(hardcover) 000800657 020__ $$a9781501126079$$q(paperback) 000800657 020__ $$a1501126075$$q(paperback) 000800657 020__ $$a9781501176661 000800657 020__ $$a1501176668 000800657 020__ $$z9781501126093 000800657 035__ $$a(OCoLC)on1001340693 000800657 035__ $$a800657 000800657 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dAZZPT$$dYDX$$dBTCTA$$dBDX$$dHQD$$dVTL$$dOI6$$dFMF$$dDAD$$dIUK$$dCZA$$dOEK$$dTXCVP$$dRB0$$dWYZ$$dZP7$$dCLU$$dINR$$dVP@$$dSINLB$$dOCLCF$$dOSU$$dZHB$$dTXLBH$$dOBE$$dOCLCQ$$dZCU$$dCHILD 000800657 042__ $$apcc 000800657 043__ $$an-us-ms 000800657 049__ $$aISEA 000800657 05000 $$aPS3623.A7323$$bS56 2017 000800657 08200 $$a813/.6$$223 000800657 1001_ $$aWard, Jesmyn,$$eauthor. 000800657 24510 $$aSing, unburied, sing :$$ba novel /$$cJesmyn Ward. 000800657 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bScribner,$$c2017. 000800657 300__ $$a289 pages ;$$c22 cm 000800657 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000800657 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000800657 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 000800657 520__ $$a"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. 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. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000800657 586__ $$aNational Book Award, 2017. 000800657 650_0 $$aAfrican American families$$zMississippi$$vFiction. 000800657 655_7 $$aThrillers (Fiction)$$2lcgft 000800657 655_7 $$aRoad fiction.$$2lcgft 000800657 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3623.A7323$$iS56$$i2017 000800657 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:800657$$pGLOBAL_SET 000800657 980__ $$aBIB 000800657 980__ $$aBOOK