Sing, Unburied, Sing
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2017]
Format: Audiobook on CD
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 7 sound discs (approximately 480 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Subjects:
African American children -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Drug addicts -- Fiction.
Children of prisoners -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
African American children -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Drug addicts -- Fiction.
Children of prisoners -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
ISBN:
9781508237549
UPC: 9781508237549
More Formats
Compact discs.
Sound recording.
Read by various readers.
National Book Award for Fiction, 2017.
Sound recording.
Read by various readers.
National Book Award for Fiction, 2017.