![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Your purchase will include a signing line ticket that will serve as your admission into the signing line. In order to join the signing line and have any books signed at this event, you must purchase a copy of Sing, Unburied, Sing, from Parnassus Books either in-store, over the phone, or online. This event is free and open to the public. Parnassus Books is thrilled to welcome National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward for a discussion and signing of her new novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, as part of our speaker series. ![]()
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