{"product_id":"sing-unburied","title":"Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing","description":"\u003cp\u003eBloomsbury Circus, 2017. 289 p. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003econdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e very good \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalvage the Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSing, Unburied, Sing\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshe is at the height of her powers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJojo 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. 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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Juodas šuo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54686594236739,"sku":"KS10400","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1144\/2880\/files\/wardsingunburied_sing.jpg?v=1785246242","url":"https:\/\/www.juodassuo.lt\/products\/sing-unburied","provider":"Juodas šuo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}