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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing is the third novel by the American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Scribner in 2017. It focuses on a family in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The novel received overwhelmingly positive reviews, and was named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. The novel won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction.
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A National Book Award winner about a family on a road trip across Mississippi, loaded with grief, ghost stories and generational trauma. It shows the afterlife of slavery in America, and songs and storytelling play a major role.
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