Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction · 2018 · WinnerIndies Choice Book Award – Adult Fiction · 2018 · WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · 2018 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction | 2018 | Winner |
| Indies Choice Book Award – Adult Fiction | 2018 | Winner |
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2018 | Shortlist |
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 →
