Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781508236139
- ISBN: 1508236135
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (1 sound file (8 hr., 26 min., 33 sec.)) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Chalk and Rutina Wesley. |
Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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Subject: | Children of drug addicts -- Fiction Drug addicts -- Fiction Children of drug addicts Drug addicts |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. Fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2017 October
Ward's latest novel takes the heroic quest motif, adds ghost story elements, and then plunges into contemporary America's battle with poverty and addiction. There is a truth and grittiness here that narrators Kelvin Harrison, Rutina Wesley, and Chris Chalk enhance significantly with their powerful talents. Thirteen-year-old Jojo's voice is both innocent of and sadly experienced in the ways of his Mississippi home and family. His addict mother, Leonie, possesses a voice that is at once dreamy and calculating. The practical wisdom in the tone of Richie, the dead boy who contributes to this portrait, seals the listener's fate, making this audiobook impossible to silence. All in all, this excellent novel makes for exceptional listening. L.B.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews - Audio And Video Online Reviews 1991-2018
Ward's lush, evocative, National Book Awardâwinning title gets an equally winning treatment from three notable debut narrators. This family road story is told through alternating narration by lovestruck and drug-addicted Leonie, voiced by Rutina Wesley; young Jojo, portrayed by Harrison; and Chris Chalk as the ghost of Richie. Wesley creates a deeply affecting Leonie, using a dreamy, languid pacing and drawing on emotions that range from detached to piercingly pained. Chalk's Richie is concurrently youthful and wizened, a posture befitting the character. But it is Harrison's Jojo who anchors the performance, with a weary optimism and palpable love for his family oozing out of every phrase. Ward's use of language is something to behold, and hearing her words performed brings another, more tangible quality to the prose. Expect to share this title with book-discussion groups and readers who want to get swept away with a story told by three remarkable narrators. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 March #1
In her second National Book Award (NBA)-winning title, Ward returns to Bois Sauvage, MS, where her first NBA winner,
Copyright 2018 Library Journal.Salvage the Bones , played out.Bones ' Skeetah and Eschelle appear momentarily here. Jojo, 13, and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their black grandparents. Their drug-addicted mother Leonie is mostly absent, until she returns announcing a road trip to collect their white father from prison. The epic journey lays bare racial, societal, and familial divides, revealing a tragic landscape still struggling with the horrific legacy of enslavement and privilege. A trio of newbie narrators make audacious debuts; each is superb. Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Jojo is old before his time as Kayla's protector. Rutina Wesley as Leonie achingly inhabits the limbo between desperate and determined. Chris Chalk as Richieâwho slips into the car on the return rideâis caught between brash and lost. With such talent, the production should have been pitch-perfect, but the jarring disconnect among narrators when voicing the same characters in their separate chaptersâHarrison's Jojo, for example, is impossibly patient; Wesley's Jojo sounds unnecessarily surlyâmars a potentially spectacular performance.VERDICT Directing flaws aside, libraries will want to satisfy eager literature lovers with all available formats. ["Lyrical yet tough, Ward's distilled language effectively captures the hard lives, fraught relationships, and spiritual depth of her characters":LJ 5/15/2017 starred review of the Scribner hc.]âTerry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 October #5
A trio of performers demonstrate their considerable vocal talents in the audio edition of the latest from National Book Awardâwinner Ward (for
Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly.Salvage the Bones ). The novel's multithreaded structure may take a bit of time for listeners to grasp, particularly given that one of the three narrators is the ghost of Richie, a teen prisoner who was murdered many decades earlier. The other two protagonistsâa 13-year-old boy named Jojo and his drug-addicted mother, Leonieâinteract with both the living and the dead in their daily lives in a narrative that links past racial violence with a current family crisis. The elements eventually meld together seamlessly. Jojo's lingering sense of innocence and earnestness on the cusp of manhood shines through in the gentle cadence of Harrison's voice. Actor Wesley brings both edge and vulnerability to her smoky-voiced portrayal of Leonie. The listening experience requires attention to detail, but the solid performances are a great match for the material.A Scribner hardcover. (Sept.)