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    'Sing, Unburied, Sing' is a road novel, a ghost story, a family epic

    Oct 11, 2017 3 minutes

    Some novels will break your heart from the very first sentence. Sing, Unburied, Sing is one of those. 

    “I like to think I know what death is. I like to think that it’s something I could look at straight,” Jojo says on the occasion of his 13th birthday.

    Jojo and his baby sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Pop and Mam, in Mississippi. Their dad, Michael, is up in Parchman prison, and their mom,

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