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Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' is a ghost story about the real struggles of living

“When you see yourself reflected in literature, it enlarges your ideas of what is possible for you.” MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient Jesmyn Ward takes PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown on a tour of her hometown in Mississippi and shares the parts of her life and community that inspire her writing. Ward is the winner of the 2017 National Book Award in fiction for Sing, Unbured, Sing (Scribner, 2017).

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Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
National Book Award
2017
Scribner
PBS NewsHour
MacArthur Fellowship
Mississippi

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