Sing, Unburied, Sing
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