Sing, unburied, sing

Resource Information

The work Sing, unburied, sing represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Sing, unburied, sing

Statement of responsibility

Jesmyn Ward

Creator

• Ward, Jesmyn

Author

• Ward, Jesmyn

Subject

• Children of prisoners -- Fiction
• Coming of age -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Drug addicts -- Fiction
• Mississippi -- Fiction
• Racially mixed families -- Fiction
• Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction
• African American families -- Fiction
• Teenage boys -- Mississippi -- Fiction
• Winners circle
• Women drug addicts -- Fiction
• Teenage boys -- Mississipi -- Fiction
• Children of drug addicts -- Fiction

Genre

• Winners circle
• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

NWPL

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult