Sing, Unburied, Sing

Resumen del libro

An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man.

His mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is black and her children's father is white. Embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances, she wants to be a better mother, but can't put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use.

When the children's father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love.

Biografía del autor

Nació en DeLisle, Misisipi, en 1977. Es la primera mujer y la primera persona afroamericana en haber recibido en dos ocasiones el National Book Award, el premio literario más importante de Estados Unidos, que ganó con sus novelas Quedan los huesos (2011) y La canción de los vivos y los muertos (Sexto Piso, 2018). También es autora de la novela Where the Line Bleeds y del libro de memorias Men We Reaped , que fue finalista del Premio Nacional de la Crítica. Ha sido también reconocida con la beca MacArthur Genius, una beca Stegner y el Premio de Ficción Estadounidense de la Biblioteca del Congreso en 2022. Este mundo ciego es su cuarta novela. En la actualidad es profesora de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Tulane y vive en Misisipi.