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You don't have to love a book to respect it. As a reading experience, I didn't particularly love this book, but damn, Ward can write! That is, she is that most unusual of novelists who writes like a hybrid poet-novelist. Most novelists burn through words like they are expendable kudzu. 
The book is one of those point-of-view jumpers, chapter by chapter, focused on a mixed-race family in Mississippi. Thus we get Leonie, daughter of Riv and Mam, plus her son JoJo and her daughter Kayla. Sing, Unbur ...more
      
  The book is one of those point-of-view jumpers, chapter by chapter, focused on a mixed-race family in Mississippi. Thus we get Leonie, daughter of Riv and Mam, plus her son JoJo and her daughter Kayla. Sing, Unbur ...more
  
  
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