Genre: Book
Grade: B
Notable People: Jesmyn Ward
Title: Sing. Unburied. Sing
Review: I feel very ambivalent about giving this book a B rating. Ward is at the forefront of writing about the extraordinary experience if African- Americans in the South…she pulls no punches in portraying a climate of racism, despair, alienation…it is not pretty. The book is very well written, but I had a really hard time keeping up with the narrative, and it was extremely depressing. Many dreamlike/ vision sequences that lost me as I tried to get engaged. An important work, no doubt- but not very consuming-forced myself to finish it.