cphenly 's review for:

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

4.0

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I just finished reading Children of Blood and Bone, so the straight up comparison is inevitable, and this book is vastly superior. Both ostensibly show the consequences of a group of people who have to live with the burden of a history of poverty and oppression, but Ward's book does it with nuance and portraits of real, believable people, which Children uses a really heavy-handed approach involving one-dimensional characters and a whole series of violent clashes. If you're only going to read one, read this one. You will sympathize with these characters much more thoroughly!