![]() ![]() Ward shapes all this into narrative with a prose style that evokes the stealth, stalking menace born out of the novel’s setting: Bois Sauvage, Mississippi.Ī Gulf Coast hamlet, Bois Sauvage recalls William Faulkner’s Jefferson, Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville, John Edgar Wideman’s Homewood, Edward P. Jesmyn Ward’s 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' is about elliptical escape routes that always return you home ravenous, addictive, blues-driven co-dependence that becomes a prison house racism and injustice ravaging one family intimately and generationally settling accounts with the dead and children, blessed with psychic understanding of Animalia and second sight, forced to raise their flailing, failing parents. ![]() In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 15 announcement of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Walton Muyumba offers an appreciation of fiction finalist Jesmyn Ward’s 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' (Scribner). ![]()
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