Sing, Unburied, Sing

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ward's language is simply music, and the story of Jojo and Leonie and the ghosts that haunt them on their pursuit to reunite a family that never really was is dense and complex. Told in three generations of experience growing up in rural Mississippi, the tenderness the Jesmyn Ward uses to illuminate the full humanity of complicated characters in all her novels is entirely present in this one as well. The level of mysticism was a little tough for me, but ultimately, the hauntings help us come to know the living characters better, and ghosts don't seem unreal.

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