BOOK REVIEW: Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Publication Date: September 5, 2017 Format: Paperback Genre: Fantasy Fiction Publisher: Schribner Length: 305 pages Buy: Kindle | Audiobook Synopsis Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t 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 won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant confli...