Sing, Unburied, Sing

Name: Sing, Unburied, Sing
ISBN: 9781501126062

Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2018 · ShortlistAnisfield-Wolf Book · 2018 · WinnerIndies Choice · 2018 · WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award · 2018 · Shortlist

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ScribnerSeptember 5, 2017Literary FictionISBN 9781501126062

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)	2018	Shortlist
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction	2018	Winner	“Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction in 2018, having previously won the National Book Award.”
Indies Choice Book Award – Adult Fiction	2018	Winner	“Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward won the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction in 2018.”
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	2018	Shortlist	“Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2018.”

About This Book

Jojo, a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in rural Mississippi, takes a road trip with his drug-addicted mother to collect his white father from prison. The journey through the Mississippi landscape becomes a haunted reckoning with the ghosts of the state's violent history. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, and the Indies Choice Book Award.

About the Author

Jesmyn WardAmerican

Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and professor of creative writing at Tulane University. Born in DeLisle, Mississippi, in 1977, she grew up in rural Mississippi, an environment that has profoundly shaped her fiction. She studied at the University of Michigan and Stanford University and received her MFA from Michigan. Read more →