These rich characters evoke so much emotion, hope and despair, and I enjoyed my increased understanding of them as they became whole through Ward’s prose. We witness Jojo being able to communicate with the dead. We see how his daughter, Leonie, is selfish, neglectful, bitter and struggles with addiction. Throughout the novel, we learn about Pop’s time spent in the penitentiary, and the horrific details that pepper his past.
When Michael is released from prison, Leonie takes her reluctant children away from their grandparents, on a road trip with her friend, Misty, to pick up drugs and then the children’s father. Jojo is brave he takes care of his little sister Kayla with love and care, despite his mother’s neglect as a parental role model. However, Mam is dying of cancer and a broken heart due to her son’s death and spends all of her time in bed, and Pop is quiet, strong, and teaches Jojo what he can around the farm. Rich With Ward's Distinctive, Musical Language, Sing, Unburied, Sing Is A Majestic New Work And An Essential Contribution To American Literature- Jesmyn Ward.Leonie is a drug addict and she is rarely around so Mam and Pop have stepped in to raise the kids.
Sing, Unburied, Sing Grapples With The Ugly Truths At The Heart Of The American Story And The Power, And Limitations, Of The Bonds Of Family. When The White Father Of Leonie's Children Is Released From Prison, She Packs Her Kids And A Friend Into Her Car And Sets Out Across The State For Parchman Farm, The Mississippi State Penitentiary, On A Journey Rife With Danger And Promise. Leonie Is Simultaneously Tormented And Comforted By Visions Of Her Dead Brother, Which Only Come To Her When She's High Mam Is Dying Of Cancer And Quiet, Steady Pop Tries To Run The Household And Teach Jojo How To Be A Man. Jojo And His Toddler Sister, Kayla, Live With Their Grandparents, Mam And Pop, And The Occasional Presence Of Their Drug-addicted Mother, Leonie, On A Farm On The Gulf Coast Of Mississippi. Ward Is A Major American Writer, Multiply Awarded And Universally Lauded, And In Sing, Unburied, Sing She Is At The Height Of Her Powers. Drawing On Morrison And Faulkner, The Odyssey And The Old Testament, Ward Gives Us An Epochal Story, A Journey Through Mississippi's Past And Present That Is Both An Intimate Portrait Of A Family And An Epic Tale Of Hope And Struggle. In Jesmyn Ward's First Novel Since Her National Book Award-winning Salvage The Bones, This Singular American Writer Brings The Archetypal Road Novel Into Rural Twenty-first-century America. A Searing And Profound Southern Odyssey By National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward.
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