Sing, Unburied, Sing -- Jesmyn Ward

<b>*WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION </b><br> <b>*A <i>TIME</i> MAGAZINE BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR and A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>TOP 10 OF 2017</b><br> <b>*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize<br> *Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal</b><br> <b>*Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize</b><br> <b><i>*Publishers Weekly</i> Top 10 of 2017</b><br> <b>*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award </b> <p/><b>A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a <i>New York Times </i>bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a "tour de force" (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic.</b> <p/>In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning <i>Salvage the Bones</i>, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, <i>Sing, Unburied, Sing</i> journeys through Mississippi's past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power--and limitations--of family bonds. <p/> Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn't lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complica