Joseph lives with his Black grandparents - two hardened but caring strongholds of wisdom and love, both carrying a lifetime of sorrow but only one carrying cancer - and his 3 year-old sister Kayla, who seemingly adores her big brother more than anything or anyone else in the world.
In Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward gifts us with the story of a 13 year-old named Joseph whose White father Michael is in Mississippi’s maximum security prison and whose Black mother Leonie is gone and high more than she isn’t. Sing, Unburied, Sing is a work of lyrical beauty on a backdrop of persistent ugliness and cruelty, a masterpiece in storytelling set in a world of narratives forgotten or ignored, a page-turning delight built atop a visceral and aching pain.
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