Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' is a ghost story about the real struggles of living
Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward writes the stories of the people and places she found absent in literature while growing up. Her new fiction novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” weaves the...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: And now a look at love, loss, class, race, and the mystical, all topics in Jesmyn Ward's latest novel, "Sing, Unburied, Sing." Recently named a MacArthur genius fellow, the Tulane University professor has been nominated for this year's National Book Award, an honor she previously won in 2011. Jeffrey Brown visited her in Mississippi in the latest episode of our Race Matters series. JEFFREY BROWN: A late summer day in the small town of DeLisle near the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and Jesmyn Ward plays in the yard with her 5-year-old daughter and her friend, while her infant son sleeps inside. When Ward was a child growing up here herself, she was a voracious reader, especially of books about the adventures of young girls. But there...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: And now a look at love, loss, class, race, and the mystical, all topics in Jesmyn Ward's latest novel, "Sing, Unburied, Sing." Recently named a MacArthur genius fellow, the Tulane University professor has been nominated for this year's National Book Award, an honor she previously won in 2011. Jeffrey Brown visited her in Mississippi in the latest episode of our Race Matters series. JEFFREY BROWN: A late summer day in the small town of DeLisle near the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and Jesmyn Ward plays in the yard with her 5-year-old daughter and her friend, while her infant son sleeps inside. When Ward was a child growing up here herself, she was a voracious reader, especially of books about the adventures of young girls. But there...
