![]() ![]() Jojo and Kayla's mom, Leonie, is Pop and Mam's daughter and also lives in the house-when she remembers to come home. ![]() Mam is very sick now and stays in bed, while Pop tries to take care of the small farm, the house, and the children. Thirteen-year-old Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with and are mostly taken care of by their kind and loving Black grandparents, Pop and Mam, in a small house in rural Mississippi. It was worth the wait, a compelling and powerful story about life and death, love and family. My husband gave it to me as a gift the following year, and it sat on my TBR shelf-with many other acclaimed books-until I made time to read it in December, when I often try to catch up on books from my own shelves I have been meaning to get to. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward landed on almost every Best Books of 2017 list and also won the National Book Award for Fiction that year. ![]()
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