5/24/2023 0 Comments Ward sing unburied sing![]() When I ask Ward if writing about the South ever gets to be too much, she laughs, “Oh yes, all the time. Though, as recent events have shown, the past never truly goes away, it just gets better at disguising itself. ![]() She’s been doing so for almost a decade now she put out her first novel Where the Line Bleeds in 2008, won the National Book Award for her second Salvage The Bones in 2011, and wrote her memoir Men We Reaped in 2013, all touching on the region and its harrowing past. Ward has taken on the responsibility of writing about the South and the people that live there. ![]() Especially one as layered and vivid as Ward's latest, Sing, Unburied, Sing. ![]() I take immense pleasure in reading it, but become paralyzed at the idea of creating an entire world of my own. “I feel like I’m just saying the same things over and over again.” It’s funny, I tell her, because I feel similarly confused about writing fiction. ![]() “I don’t know how you do it,” she says to me, “it” meaning write for a publication. When I speak with Jesmyn Ward on the phone from her home in Mississippi, she’s just put her son down for a nap and is in the middle of writing a profile on Ava DuVernay. ![]()
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