Sing, Unburied, Sing
Ranked #33 in 2017, Ranked #34 in African American — see more rankings.
A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.
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. 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. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally... more
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. 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. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally... more
Rankings by Category
Sing, Unburied, Sing is ranked in the following categories:
- #94 in Addiction
- #41 in Black Author
- #69 in Drugs
- #42 in Magical Realism
- #81 in Multiculturalism
- #91 in NPR
- #81 in New York Times Bestseller
- #80 in Poverty
- #59 in Prison
- #55 in Racism
- #36 in South
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