Crow's bleak song: Reading Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award nominated Sing Unburied Sing
The novel wrestles invisible evils that are the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era. How to survive in an America where slavery is gone but apartheid remains?
In Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award nominated novel, Sing Unburied Sing, set in rural Mississippi, a young African American mother, Leonie, and her 13 year old bi racial son, Jojo, wrestle invisible evils that are the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era. Among the questions they face: how must each understand the weight of history to overcome conflicts that undermine the unity of their
