National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward returns to Square Books on Monday, September 25th, in support of her latest novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Fiction. Ward, a Mississippian, was the Grisham Writer in Residence in 2010.
In her first novel since Salvage the Bones, 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, Sing, Unburied, Sing 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.
As former Square Books bookseller Purvis Cornish says, "Ward delivers again. Told mainly through the voices of Jojo, a teenager and pseudo-father to his younger sister, Kayla, and their estranged mother, Leonie, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a multi-generational and multi-racial family's odyssey through Mississippi, and through the legacies—ghosts—of slavery and Jim Crow, which shape this family's present."
She'll be joined in conversation with the 2017 Grisham Writer in Residence Catherine Lacey. For more information, visit the event page.