The Resource Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
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The item Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
- Title
- Sing, unburied, sing
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jesmyn Ward
- Subject
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- Road fiction
- trueAfrican American families
- African American families
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- trueAutomobile travel
- trueExtended families
- FICTION -- African American | General
- FICTION -- Coming of Age
- FICTION -- Literary
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFarm life
- Fiction
- trueFormer convicts
- trueGhosts
- trueGrandparents
- trueGulf Coast, Mississippi
- trueMississippi
- Mississippi
- trueMultiracial children
- truePoverty
- Road fiction
- trueRace relations
- trueWomen drug abusers
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueSuffering
- trueRural poor people
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2018.
- Indies' Choice Book Awards, Adult Fiction, 2018.
- Librarians' Choice (Australia), 2017
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2017.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2017
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10576381
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Ward, Jesmyn
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 840L
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- Literary form
- fiction
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- African American families
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- African American families
- Mississippi
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1856635
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501126062
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2017039315
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781501126062
- (OCoLC)1001340693
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1856635
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501126062
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2017039315
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781501126062
- (OCoLC)1001340693
Subject
- Road fiction
- trueAfrican American families
- African American families
- African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- trueAutomobile travel
- trueExtended families
- FICTION -- African American | General
- FICTION -- Coming of Age
- FICTION -- Literary
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFarm life
- Fiction
- trueFormer convicts
- trueGhosts
- trueGrandparents
- trueGulf Coast, Mississippi
- trueMississippi
- Mississippi
- trueMultiracial children
- truePoverty
- Road fiction
- trueRace relations
- trueWomen drug abusers
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueSuffering
- trueRural poor people
Genre
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- trueLibrarians' Choice (Australia): 2017
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2018
- trueAfrican American Fiction
- trueIndies' Choice Book Awards: Adult Fiction
- trueNational Book Awards: Fiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2017
- trueRecommended by Danielle Borasky
- trueRural Fiction
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