She is the author of the novels Where the Line. This is a great book for anyone who loves to read William Faulkner or Toni Morrison. Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University. While each character is flawed, Ward humanizes all of them and shows how compassion is necessary when learning about the lives of people we often shun or overlook. This book is compelling because of the way it merges the past with the present. Each character here is endearing in his or her own way. This thesis explores how ecocriticism and trauma theory intersect within Jesmyn Ward’s novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) to tackle the complex act of collective healing. We are shown how important it is to understand our personal histories and how they continue to affect our futures. A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. Ward tells this story with beautiful prose and brings light into the darkness of the American past. Both Jojo and Leonie become haunted by ghosts, Leonie by her brother’s, and Jojo by the spirt of a young boy, as the two travel across the South. Our main character is thirteen-year-old Jojo, who is taken on a road trip with his drug-addicted mother, Leonie, when his father is released from prison. In Sing, Unburied, Sing(Simon & Schuster, $26) Jesmyn Ward takes magical realism and uses it as a device through which readers can hear the marginalized voices of the Mississippi Gulf coast. Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University. Two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward joins us for a discussion of her most recent novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, a profound Southern odyssey and.

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