Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Literary Fiction
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
—· 304 p· 2017
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Overview
About
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 st…
Pages
304
Simon & Schuster Audio
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Emotional depth10
Historical Racial Trauma10
Prose9
Family Bonds9
Narration8
Worldbuilding7
Pacing7
Plot twists6
My journey
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