01722cam a2200325 4500 510745695 TxAuBib 20211025120000.0 180426t20182017||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2018071474 9781501126079 PAP 17.00 1501126075 PAP 17.00 TxAuBib Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, unburied, sing [BOOK] : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. First Scribner trade paperback edition. New York : Scribner, 2018. ©2017. 289 pages ; 21 cm. Includes reading group guide. "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.". 20211025. African American families Mississippi Fiction. Families, Black Fiction. Siblings Young adult fiction. Multiracial families Fiction. Drug addicts Fiction. Rural poor Fiction. Domestic fiction.