#jesmynward

[jennabookish]

September's #girlybookclub selection is ridiculously poetic and poignant. 💖 "Sometimes the world don't give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds." #singunburiedsing #jesmynward #bookstagram #bookphotography #books

[simoneandherbooks]

Congrats to Jesmyn Ward for winning the @nationalbookfoundation #NBAwards for fiction. SING, UNBURIED, SING just happened to be next on my reading list so that’s a happy coincidence and will fill my weekend with award winning prose 😄. Here’s some more on this lovely book. . Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature. . . . #booklr #bookstagram #bookish #bookblog #bookblogger #currentlyreading #bookphoto #bookphotography #booksandbeans #booksandtea #booksandcoffee #igreads #booksofinstagram #bunchofbookbaristas #booknerdigan #booknerd #bookworm #booklove #booklover #bibliophile #lit #badassbookbabes #amreading #singunburiedsing #jesmynward

[strandbooks]

Congratulations to all the #NationalBookAward winners (and finalists)! 🏆📚🏆 The winners are 📖Fiction: Jesmyn Ward - Sing Unburied Sing 📖Nonfiction: Masha Gessen- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia 📖Poetry: Frank Bidart- Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 ​📖Young People's Lit: Robin Benway - Far From the Tree​ •• @nationalbookfoundation #jesmynward #mashagessen #frankbidart #robinbenway #bookawards (at Strand Book Store)

[booksforyears]

This #signedsunday I'm thinking back to last weekend and how exciting it was to be a part of #natbookfest this year. Meeting Jesmyn Ward, Michael Eric Dyson, and Roxane Gay was both a thrill and an extreme pleasure 📚❤️🖋 #books #read #reading #bookish #booklover #booklife #bibliophile #authorevent #jesmynward #singunburiedsing #salvagethebones #menwereaped #michaelericdyson #tearswecannotstop #roxanegay #ayiti #essay #memoir #shortstories #writersofcolor #bookstagram #booksofinstagram

[simoneandherbooks]

Happy #SockSunday everyone! B and I are doing a Harry Potter marathon this weekend and today we’ll be checking out Prisoner of Azkaban and, my favorite, Goblet of Fire!!! You know you truly love someone when you’re quoting HP together 😍😚😊❤️. . I’m also getting more into SING UNBURIED SING which feels like the reality of poverty in the US. I’ve been thinking on this and right now the book’s takeaway is more than just race and slavery but the truth of many Americans living in poverty. They work super hard but somehow those ends don’t meet and let’s not talk about the mental health of these folks as well. Man, if anything this story is a huge truth bomb and eye opener. I think that’s what I can take away. . . . #book #booklr #bookstagram #bookish #bookblog #bookblogger #currentlyreading #bookphoto #bookphotography #booksandbeans #booksandtea #booksandcoffee #igreads #booksofinstagram #bunchofbookbaristas #booknerdigan #booknerd #bookworm #booklove #booklover #bibliophile #lit #badassbookbabes #amreading #singunburiedsing #jesmynward

[thebookdragon217]

"...I found the adage about time healing all wounds to be false: grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief. We are nervous free from the feeling that we have failed. We are never free from self-loathing. We are never free from the feeling that made this mess." QOTD: What book are you still thinking about today? Men We Reaped rocked me to the core. Jesmyn Ward poured her entire heart onto these pages. I related to this book on a personal level and it validated fears I thought I had buried deep inside. Ward's writing cuts like a knife but allows for cathartic relief. I've never thought about grief the way Ward describes it: " WE INHERIT THESE things that breed despair and self-hatred, and tragedy multiplies." It is sinister and waiting to finally catch up to us. "DEATH SPREADS, EATING away at the root or our community like a fungus". Because of the generational traumas and circumstances that are passed down in marginalized communities death is always lurking and waiting to destroy what we love the most. Ward ultimately explores: 🖤 how we define and create community and family 🖤 how grief is carried across generations 🖤 why we are always to drawn to home despite tragedy 🖤 how communities heal and practice resiliency 🖤 the daily anxieties and fears of marginalized communities 🖤 how communities cope with grief 🖤 the effects of unresolved mental health issues in families of color 🖤 gender differences in communities 🖤 what it means to be BIPOC and poor in the South 🖤 the strength of Black women 🖤 what survival looks like as a Black person What sticks with me the most is the idea that grief is the validation that someone's life mattered. Grief is what is left behind to remind us of how much our loved ones meant to us even if the world says otherwise. Grief never fully goes away because it is what keeps us connected to those that left us too soon. This book was powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. #MenWeReaped #JesmynWard #BlackMemoir #Indigenous #books #ownvoices #bookreview #bookish #bookstagram #BlackLiterature (at HomeGoods) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRXYStDLPfr/?utm_medium=tumblr

[itsredwritinghood]

I have never read anything by #jesmynward until I listened to this one. I picked it because it was about when Katrina hit and I thought there could be a good story there, but the majority of the story centered around training dogs for dog fights and I had a hard time getting past that to see any of the other characters or storyline. I can see that Miss Ward is a good writer, but unfortunately for me, the subject matter was hard to stomach. #bookstagram #bookgeek #bookworm #booknerd #audiobooks #bibliophile #bookaddict #reading #listeningto https://www.instagram.com/p/COZdVHIL3nC/?igshid=fxi3tgwwdyc4

[mamanerd22]

Day 16: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward "A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi’s past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power—and limitations—of family bonds." #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors #SingUnburiedSing #JesmynWard #representationmatters #booknerd #nerdymama #nerdybooks #blackgirlsread #POCbookstagrammer #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CLYI7CwAKqD/?igshid=1vrwimw10p5tb