'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' A Ghost Story About Life’s Struggles | PBS NewsHour

A PBS NewsHour Story Aired October 28, 2017 - Mississippi, USA

'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' a ghost story about life’s struggles | PBS NewsHour: Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward writes the stories of the people and places she found absent in literature while growing up. Her new fiction novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” weaves the supernatural with genuine characters that are molded by the rural and poverty-stricken life in her Mississippi hometown. Ward joins Jeffrey Brown to talk about her community and the stories that have come from it.