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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
A nicely lyrical exploration of the many in-between spaces of contemporary America: mixed identities, geographic spread, temporal and psychological distance. Written from the perspectives of three characters and set in a fictional Mississippi town, it has a dash of As I Lay Dying. Strains to infuse its characters with mystical insight - visions of ghosts, talking to animals - to the point of abstraction, which as a reader I felt diverts focus from the otherwise realistically painted pain of its central characters. I would recommend this book simply because I think Jesmyn Ward can evoke the modern American landscape like few other writers can at the moment.