The children accompany their mother and a friend to pick Michael up when he is released from Parchman prison, a trip that involves adults in the throes of drug addiction neglecting children.
Thirteen-year-old Jojo is brother and protector to his two-year-old sister, Kayla, their bond shaped by their father, Michael’s, absence and their mother, Leonie’s, indifference. It is the kind of novel you finish reading and immediately want to begin again, to plunge yourself into the depths of these lives, these people, all over again, if only so you can be with them in their hungry search for home. The book begs to be read and reread, shared and discussed. It is impossible to capture the hauntingly gorgeous prose and heartbreakingly human need in this novel without running the risk of missing some key detail.
Short-listed for the National Book Award, Jesmyn Ward’s brilliant novel Sing, Unburied, Sing defies a simple review.
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