The Scotsman

Sing, Unburied, Sing

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By Jesmyn Ward Bloomsbury, £16.99

Jesmyn Ward’s second novel, Salvage

The Bones, received critical praise (not to mention a National Book Award) for its unflinchin­g portrayal of a poor family in rural Mississipp­i. This follow-up is set in the same state and in similarly gritty circumstan­ces, following a journey made by a black mother, Leonie, with her young family to visit the prison from which her children’s white father, Michael, is about to be released. Themes of drug addiction and child abuse feature in this powerful tale, with ghostly

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