{"id":72983,"date":"2024-02-08T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=72983"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:24:50","slug":"february-reading-selection-sing-unburied-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2024\/02\/08\/february-reading-selection-sing-unburied-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"February Reading Group: Sing, Unburied, Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our February reading group selection is Sing, Unburied, Sing<\/a><\/em> by Jesmyn Ward, the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017. The reading group will meet Wednesday, February 28 at 7 pm<\/strong> online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent on the afternoon of the meeting to anyone interested in attending. Email bookbeatorders@gmail.com to sign up. Books are in stock now and discounted 15%. The Book Beat reading group is free and open to the public. Please call (248) 968-1190 for more information.<\/p>\n

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“The connection between the injustices of the past and the desperation of present are clearly drawn in Sing, Unburied, Sing<\/em>, a book that charts the lines between the living and the dead, the loving and the broken. I am a huge fan of Jesmyn Ward’s work, and this book proves that she is one of the most important writers in America today.”
\n–Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth<\/em><\/p>\n

“Sing, Unburied, Sing<\/em> is many things: a road novel, a slender epic of three generations and the ghosts that haunt them, and a portrait of what ordinary folk in dire circumstances cleave to as well as what they — and perhaps we all — are trying to outrun.”
\n— Tracy K. Smith (Poet Laureate of the United States), New York Times Book Review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n