sasuke 's review for:

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The experience of reading this book is hard to describe, a beautifully written story, harsh and gentle at once, and one that is hard to extract yourself from once you’ve entered from the very beginning and beyond the end. The tension is coiled very tightly and tightens; tension between characters, between times and history, in the physical world and it’s natural and supernatural elements this story occupies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Slavery, Death of parent, Murder