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HEARING VOICES

Jesmyn Ward explores African American life in the haunted South.

IN JESMYN WARD’S Sing, Unburied, Sing, out in September, the National Book Award-winning novelist conjures a tale that shimmers with revenants yet remains firmly planted in earthly realities: addiction, incarceration, and racism. When drug-addled Leonie takes her mixed-race kids on a journey to pick up their

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