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Genre/Form: | Fiction Thrillers (Fiction.) Suspense fiction Road fiction Thrillers (Fiction) Romans de la route Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jesmyn Ward |
ISBN: | 9781501126062 1501126067 9781501126079 1501126075 9781501176661 1501176668 |
OCLC Number: | 1001340693 |
Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction, 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 2018 Fiction |
Description: | 289 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Jesmyn Ward. |
Abstract:
Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high. Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.
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