Like Ward's previous novel, Salvage the Bones, her new novel is set in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage (wild or savage woods). That oozing mud sticks to her characters: They dream of drowning, of rising waters and sucking mud. Yes, blood and mud are everywhere in Jesmyn Ward's Mississippi, a place full of ghosts and corpses, bayous and roadkill ("possums or armadillos or wild pigs or hit deer, bloating and turning sour in the Mississippi heat"). "The goat makes a sound of surprise, a bleat swallowed by a gurgle, and then there's blood and mud everywhere."
Sing, Unburied, Sing opens with the slaughter of a goat. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sing, Unburied, Sing Author Jesmyn Ward
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