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Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is black and her children's father is white. 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.
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. At Parchman, there is another boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love.

Hurricane Katrina is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family.
Esch and her three brothers are stockpiling food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.
As the novel progresses through twelve dramatic days, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.

Jojo und seine kleine Schwester Kayla leben bei ihren Gro?eltern Mam and Pop an der Golfk?ste von Mississippi. Leonie, ihre Mutter, k?mmert sich kaum um sie. Sie nimmt Drogen und arbeitet in einer Bar. Wenn sie high ist, wird Leonie von Visionen ihres toten Bruders heimgesucht, die sie qu?len, aber auch tr?sten. Mam ist unheilbar an Krebs erkrankt, und der stille und verl?ssliche Pop versucht, den Haushalt aufrecht zu erhalten und Jojo beizubringen, wie man erwachsen wird. Als der wei?e Vater von Leonies Kindern aus dem Gef?ngnis entlassen wird, packt sie ihre Kinder und eine Freundin ins Auto und f?hrt zur »Parchment Farm«, dem staatlichen Zuchthaus, um ihn abzuholen. Eine Reise voller Gefahr und Hoffnung. Jesmyn Ward erz?hlt so ber?hrend wie unsentimental von einer schwarzen Familie in einer von Armut und tief verwurzeltem Rassismus gepr?gten Gesellschaft. Was bedeuten famili?re Bindungen, wo sind ihre Grenzen? Wie bewahrt man W?rde, Liebe und Achtung, wenn man sie nicht erf?hrt? Singt, ihr Lebenden und ihr Toten, singt ist ein gro?er Roman, getragen von Wards so besonderer melodischer Sprache, ein z?rtliches Familienportr?t, eine Geschichte von Hoffnungen und K?mpfen, voller Anspielungen auf das Alte Testament und die Odyssee.

Trzynastoletni Jojo na swój sposób próbuje zrozumieć, co znaczy być dobrym człowiekiem. Stopniowo poznaje świat, czepiąc zarówno z bliskich mu wzorców, rodzinnych opowieści oraz legend.
Splot wydarzeń zabierze go w podróż do więzienia stanowego Parchman w mrocznym sercu Missisipi, gdzie natrafi na pewnego udręczonego chłopca, który nosi w sobie całe zło amerykańskiego Południa. On również nauczy Jojo czegoś na temat człowieczeństwa, a także dziedzictwa, przemocy i miłości.

Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.