RaveThe Denver PostHungry and crammed in a stuffy backseat on a long road trip through Mississippi, 13-year-old JoJo experiences the ghosts, both past and present, of America’s long and complicated history of race in Jesmyn Ward’s newest novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing ...set in Mississippi, and it dwells on Southern black manhood and the social injustices so long imposed on those men. The narrative is woven with the alternating voices... Ward’s writing is visceral ... Ward digs at the subtle and not-so-subtle way that racism has long played into the American narrative, whether it’s her portrayals of the criminal justice system or one family’s refusal to accept interracial children.
