Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward 2017

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
race ghosts Mississippi family

Our Take

Ward moves a family across Mississippi, through a prison visit, past ghosts that will not rest because the violence that made them has not stopped. The novel is haunted in every sense — by the dead, by history, by a grief so old it has become inheritance. The ghost of Richie is the conscience of American history.

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