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E: 31/08 (11:59pm) Win 1 of 100 Copies of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing
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We're giving 100 Caboodlers the chance to read the majestic new work from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward – Sing, Unburied, Sing – before it's out in November.
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.
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.
Sing, Unburied, Sing turns the American road novel on its head – you will never read anything like it again.
We're giving 100 Caboodlers the chance to read the majestic new work from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward – Sing, Unburied, Sing – before it's out in November.
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.
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.
Sing, Unburied, Sing turns the American road novel on its head – you will never read anything like it again.
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