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008			170816s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
035			_a(DLC)19901607
035			_a(DLC)2017039315
010			_a 2017039315
020			_a9781501126062 (hardback)
020			_a9781501126079 (trade paper)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
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100	1		_aWard, Jesmyn,
245	1	0	_aSing, unburied, sing : _ba novel / _cJesmyn Ward.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2017.
300			_a289 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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.
650		0	_aAfrican American families _zMississippi _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / African American / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Coming of Age. _2bisacsh
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