02540cim a2200445 4500 517029914 TxAuBib 20180220120000.0 170518s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781508237549 1508237549 DD33196 Recorded Books CtWfDGI eng CtWfDGI TxAuBib Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, unburied, sing [Audio CD] / Jesmyn Ward. Unabridged. New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017. 7 sound discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Title from container. Compact disc. In container (17 cm.). Read by Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Rutina Wesley, Chris Chalk. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Jesmyn 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. 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. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. 20180220. African American families Mississippi Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Brothers and Sisters Fiction. Drug addicts Fiction. Children of prisoners Fiction. Grandparent and child Fiction. Rural poor Mississippi Fiction. Audiobooks on CD. Gulf Coast (Miss) Fiction. Harrison, Kelvin, Jr., 1994- Wesley, Rutina. Chalk, Chris, (Christopher Eugene.) Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm). Recorded Books, Inc. BTCLS