Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction | 2018 | Shortlist |
| National Book Award for FictionFiction | 2017 | Winner |
| National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)Fiction | 2017 | Shortlist |
| Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction | 2017 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He lives with his grandparents, who are Black, on a farm in rural Mississippi. When his white mother Leonie decides to drive north to pick up his father from Parchman Farm prison, Jojo is taken along on a journey that will bring the family face to face with the ghost of a boy who died in the prison in 1940. Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction.
About the Author
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 →
