CD Audiobook

Sing, unburied, sing

Ward, Jesmyn (Author). Harrison, Kelvin, Jr., 1994- (narrator.). Wesley, Rutina, (narrator.). Chalk, Chris (Christopher Eugene), (narrator.). Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm) (Added Author). Recorded Books, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary: Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Jesmyn Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. 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. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family.

Record details

ISBN: 1508237549
ISBN: 9781508237549
Physical Description: 7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2017]
Distributor: Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books
Copyright: ℗2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from container. Compact disc. In container (17 cm.).
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Rutina Wesley, Chris Chalk.