![]() ![]() Pop is struggling with the possible loss of his cancer-ridden wife and his friend when he was younger. Jojo is struggling with the loss of his mother emotionally. Leonie struggling with the loss of her brother. I feel like the central theme in this novel was grief and loss. ![]() When the white father of Leonie’s children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high Mam is dying of cancer and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. ![]() I still don’t know where to begin with writing this review. I put off writing this review for a few days because the impact this book leaves is so intense that it only feels appropriate to give it a few days of mourning. Once I finished the book, I put it down and then proceeded to not think about it. I sat on my couch while waiting for my dinner to cook in the oven, getting up every so often to make sure my meatballs weren’t burning. The other night, in the silence of my apartment, I tore through the last 50 pages of Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. ![]()
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