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Sing, Unburied, Sing (National Book Award Winner)

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

If you're wondering where to start with the work of critically acclaimed writer Ward, this is the book: Part-family drama, part-ghost story, this is a lyrical — and pointed — tale of the ties that bind.

*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two—time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (Oprah Daily) and a timele...

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