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A review by chirson
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
4.0
I read this book courtesy of NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
A profoundly sad and moving novel that broke my heart a little. It endows its characters with humanity even while showing them at their worst and has both tremendous compassion and for their flaws and weaknesses as well as their pettiness and malice, shown without sentimental or cheap solutions. It never flinches from what it shows, and it does so using beautiful language, images with great staying power and thematic resonance.
(But what a terrible world it is that needs stories this sad to tell its truth. I know that it has hope and light in it, but I found it difficult to focus on under the weight of all the darkness; perhaps I connected with it a little too much, since it had not one but two subjects I find quite traumatic.)
A profoundly sad and moving novel that broke my heart a little. It endows its characters with humanity even while showing them at their worst and has both tremendous compassion and for their flaws and weaknesses as well as their pettiness and malice, shown without sentimental or cheap solutions. It never flinches from what it shows, and it does so using beautiful language, images with great staying power and thematic resonance.
(But what a terrible world it is that needs stories this sad to tell its truth. I know that it has hope and light in it, but I found it difficult to focus on under the weight of all the darkness; perhaps I connected with it a little too much, since it had not one but two subjects I find quite traumatic.)