Sing, Unburied, Sing

…Book Award for the novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, making her the first woman and the first Black American author to win the award twice in the fiction category. Her first win was for Salvage the Bones, the story of a pregnant teenage girl living in coastal Mississippi with her father…

Ward’s third novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, was published in 2017. Like her first two novels, it follows a poor Black family in Bois Sauvage, but, unlike its predecessors, it is narrated through three perspectives and deals with Southern history, particularly slavery, in a more direct way. It also…