Sing, Unburied, Sing
American novelist, born 1977. Won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2011 and 2017.
Sing, Unburied, Sing is a 2017 novel by Jesmyn Ward. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017.
In family saga, Black American
On 3 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jesmyn Ward
- First published
- 2017
- Length
- 304 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction winner, 2017
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2018
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Black American, Southern gothic, Family saga
Is Sing, Unburied, Sing worth reading?
3 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the National Book Award for Fiction and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 2017) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times, 2024) | No. 30 | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2018) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Sing, Unburied, Sing
The edition we link to is the Bloomsbury Publishing paperback (2018), 304 pages.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing (paperback, 2018)
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781408890967
How critics, prizes and readers rate Sing, Unburied, Sing
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 22% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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