![]() Jojo is constantly plagued by the thought that he will not be the man that he needs to for his little sister Kayla-the man that Jojo never had to look up to. This experience begins the haunting that claws its way through each moment of the novel. ![]() ![]() Jojo tries valiantly to help his grandfather, but he cannot stand the thought of the goat being ripped from this world-from the comfort of all it’s ever known. A scene of murder is the initial moment of brutality and death that Ward presents in the novel: through the routine killing of a goat for food, she shows the humanity and innocence of thirteen-year-old Jojo as he tries to prove himself a man to his grandfather, Pop. Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing is a novel about the ghosts of the past-both literally and figuratively-and the ways in which they perpetuate the lives of people each and every day. But that damn blood ain’t never come out.” ![]()
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