![]() ![]() There were 13 of us in a four-bedroom house, and it was one of the happiest times of my life, surrounded by so many people who I loved. ![]() For three or so years, my family lived in my grandmother’s house, which is the house my mom grew up in. I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars. Place is important to my writing I believe that if a reader gets a clear picture of the place where a character is from, then they can understand what motivates the character, what limits him or her. ![]() Did you draw on sounds and smells of the home you grew up in? ![]() There are few physical descriptions of the family home at the centre of Sing, Unburied, Sing, yet a strong sense of it comes across. It is told chiefly through the eyes of Leonie, a drug-taking mother, and her watchful teenage son, Jojo, and unsentimentally conveys the pain of bereavement and the risks of life on the edge of survival. Her latest novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, has been nominated for the National Book award and the Kirkus prize. Her novel Salvage the Bones and her memoir Men We Reaped have both won prizes, while the collection of essays she edited and contributed to, The Fire This Time, is a US bestseller and is published in theUK next April. Jesmyn Ward, 40, who grew up and lives in Mississippi, has been hailed as a tough yet poetic new literary voice. ![]()
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