WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

'This wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare' Margaret Atwood, Twitter

Jojo is thirteen and trying to understand what

it means to be a man. His mother, Leonie, is in

constant conflict with herself and those around

her. She is black and her children's father is white.

Embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of

her circumstances, she wants to be a better mother

but can't put her children above her own needs,

especially her drug use.

When the children's father is released from

prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her

car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi

and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary,

on a journey rife with danger and promise.

Rich with Ward's distinctive, lyrical language,

Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work that

brings the archetypal road novel into rural

twenty-first century America.