Praise for Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing "Ghosts, literal and literary, haunt nearly every page of
Sing, Unburied, Sing – a novel whose boundaries between the living and the dead shift constantly, like smoke or sand. Set on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, the book's Southern gothic aura recalls the dense, head-spinning prose of William Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor."
–Entertainment Weekly "However eternal its concerns,
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward's new book, is perfectly poised for the moment."
–The New York Times "Staggering ... A furious brew with hints of Toni Morrison and Homer's
The Odyssey."
–Boston Globe "
Sing, Unburied, Sing, which is longlisted for a 2017 National Book Award, establishes Ward as one of the most poetic writers in the conversation about America's unfinished business in the black South."
–The Atlantic "Some chapters sound like fairy tales. This, and her ease with vernacular language, puts Ward in fellowship with such forebears as Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner."
–The New Yorker "[A] tour de force ... Ward is an attentive and precise writer who dazzles with natural and supernatural observations and lyrical details ... she continues telling stories we need to hear with rare clarity and power."
–O, the Oprah Magazine "Macabre and musical... Her lyrical language elevates desperation into poetic reverie ... a gripping and melodious indictment of modern racial injustices."
–Atlanta Journal-Constitution "If William Faulkner mined the South for gothic, stream-of-consciousness tragedy, and Toni Morrison conjured magical realism from the corroding power of the region's race hatred, then Ward is a worthy heir to both."
–The Dallas Morning News