A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Barack Obama and Celeste Ng
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Sing, Unburied, Sing reads like a layered, lyric road novel that moves between the viewpoints of a young boy and the adults around him. The novel’s strength is in voice: vivid, often raw passages that render family memory, racial history, and the pressure of the past as immediate. Expect formal shifts—ghostly interjections and flashbacks—that deepen atmosphere but also make the narrative feel episodic. The main limitation is a tendency toward repetition and extended, mournful passages that may frustrate readers who want tighter plotting.
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A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award_x0096_winner Jesmyn Ward.In Jesmyn Ward_x0092_s first novel since her National Book Award_x0096_winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twentyfirstcentury America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward give...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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