New York:: Scribner,, (2017). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine first issue dust jacket without the award sticker.. First printing. A novel winner of the National Book Award for fiction (her second novel to receive this award), a coming of age story set on the Gulf Coast of Missisippi, one which examines "the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesnt lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who wont acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager." 285 pp

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The story of a mother who takes her two sons on a road trip through Mississippi when their father is released from prison. One son, Jojo, is thirteen and meets another young boy at the prison, a dead inmate who brings the dark history of the past with him.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 79642
Title: SING, UNBURIED, SING.
Author: Ward, Jesmyn
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Fine in fine first issue dust jacket without the award sticker.
Jacket Condition: fine first issue
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1501126067
ISBN 13: 9781501126062
Publisher: Scribner,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (2017)
Keywords: national book award, mississippi, parchman, drug addiction, coming of age,
Bookseller catalogs: African American Literature;

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