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Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is an award-winning author known for her powerful stories set in the rural South. Her works include the memoir Men We Reaped, the novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, and the essay collection The Fire This Time, which she edited.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Jojo and his younger sister Kayla live with their grandparents, often navigating the unpredictable presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie. Leonie, haunted by visions of her deceased brother, decides to take her children and a friend on a perilous journey to Parchman Farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to pick up the children's recently released father. This road trip becomes a powerful exploration of family bonds, struggle, and the complex history of the American South.