Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ tells of racial injustice in America

Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward. Photo: AP

Jesmyn Ward's melancholic third novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, is haunted by a beauty so grim and staggering that it makes something catch in your throat.

It portrays poverty, addiction and the astonishing cruelties inflicted because of race in the American South, yet it does so with power and generosity.