Sing, unburied, sing
(Large Print)
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
ISBN
9781432846527, 1432846523
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781432846527, 1432846523
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.4, 12 Points
Level 5.4, 12 Points
Lexile measure
840
Notes
Description
Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With everybody else that's gone before." Jojo and his little sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, while Leonie, their mother, drifts in and out of their lives, causing chaos. Snorting coke one night, Leonie explains, "A clean burning shot through my bones, and then I forgot. The shoes I didn't buy, the melted cake ..." Leonie wants to be a better mother, and when Jojo's and Kayla's father is released from prison, Leonie takes the kids with her, hoping for a loving reunion, but what she gets instead is a harrowing drive across a muggy landscape haunted by hatred. Throughout the novel, though, are beautifully crafted moments of tenderness. When the dead, including Leonie's murdered brother, make their appearances and their demands, no one in the family's surprised. But their stories are deeply affecting, in no small part because of Ward's brilliant writing and compassionate eye. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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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.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chester Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print | LT FICTION WARD | Available |
Kinnelon Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print | LTFIC WARD | Available |
Morristown-Morris Township Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print | LTFIC WARD | Available |
Rockaway Borough Library - Adult Fiction - New | LTFIC WAR | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ward, J. (2017). Sing, unburied, sing (Large print edition.). Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ward, Jesmyn. 2017. Sing, Unburied, Sing. Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing Large print edition., Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
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