8/15/2023 0 Comments Nytimes best books 2020Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and “an odyssey through rural Mississippi’s past and present” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love. At Parchman, there is another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. Show: 20 Sort by: Best Sellers Grid List Best Books of 2020 QUICK ADD Caste: The Origins of Our by Isabel Wilkerson Paperback 20.00 Best Books of 2020 QUICK ADD The Splendid and the Vile: A by Erik Larson Paperback 15.99 20.00 Best Books of 2020 QUICK ADD A Promised Land by Barack Obama Hardcover 34.99 45. ![]() Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. ![]() “Ward’s writing throbs with life, grief, and love… this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it” ( Buzzfeed). The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio In her debut book, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio sets out to portray the nuanced, varied realities of life for undocumented Americans. Jesmyn Ward’s historic second National Book Award–winner is “perfectly poised for the moment” ( The New York Times), an intimate portrait of three generations of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Martin’s Press 2020 (1st March) American Dirt Jeanine Cummins Published by Flatiron Books 2020 (8th March) One Minute Out Mark Greaney Published by Berkley Publishing Group 2020 (15th March) Blindside James Patterson and James O. WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARĪ finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” ( O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic.
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