The Resource Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
Resource Information
The item Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- 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. 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Note
- Includes a reading group guide and an excerpt from Ghosts of history
- Isbn
- 9781501126062
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
- Title
- Sing, unburied, sing
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jesmyn Ward
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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. 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
- Awards note
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- National Book Award winner, 2017
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2017
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ward, Jesmyn
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American families
- African American families
- Mississippi
- Mississippi
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
- Note
- Includes a reading group guide and an excerpt from Ghosts of history
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501126062
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)on1013584988
- (OCoLC)1013584988
- Label
- Sing, unburied, sing : a novel, Jesmyn Ward
- Note
- Includes a reading group guide and an excerpt from Ghosts of history
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501126062
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)on1013584988
- (OCoLC)1013584988
Library Locations
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