RaveThe New Orleans ReviewGiven this background, it comes as no surprise that Ward’s newest novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, explores a profound sense of racial disillusionment among a small, low-income family living in rural Bois Sauvage, Mississippi ...the town and surrounding areas are further compartmentalized into neighborhoods oftentimes delineated by race and class status ... The characters, though brilliantly flawed, seem innocent at the same time, even naïve — helpless to their proclivities and histories ...visceral combination of tragedy, grief, and otherworldly magic recalls Toni Morrison’s haunting novel Beloved ...a story of trauma: how it can come from the most unlikely places, and how, like grief, everyone processes it differently. Underpinning the pain and the journey of the plot is the same symphonic clarity Ward brings to all her work. The title commands what the novel delivers — it sings.
