Sing, Unburied, Sing

Summary

A road-trip novel through rural Mississippi follows a biracial boy, his drug-addicted mother, and his ailing grandfather as they drive to collect his white father from prison, accompanied by the voices of the dead. Ward braids contemporary realism with ghostly narration drawn from the legacies of incarceration, racial violence, and Southern history. The novel deepens the mythic, lyrical voice that has come to define her body of work.