Book guide
Sing, Unburied, Sing
A haunted road trip through Mississippi becomes a reckoning with family, history, and the dead.
Genre and trope pairingsLiteraryComing of ageLiteraryDysfunctional familyLiteraryIntergenerational traumaContemporary FictionComing of ageContemporary FictionDysfunctional familyContemporary FictionIntergenerational traumaParanormalGhosts
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About Sing, Unburied, Sing
Thirteen-year-old Jojo travels with his troubled mother Leonie to Parchman prison as his father is released. Along the way, the family’s present collides with the South’s brutal past through the ghost of a dead inmate who still has lessons to offer.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
Bois Sauvage · Book 3 of 3
Content warnings
- addiction
- drug abuse
- drug use
- child abuse
- death
- cancer
- racism
- racial slurs
- rape
- violence
- vomit
- police brutality
- murder
- death of parent
- animal death
- child death
- slavery
- sexual content
