5/28/2023 0 Comments Jojo sing unburied sing![]() ![]() ![]() Leonie’s family is poor and black, living in southern Mississippi, near the gulf coast, and Jojo’s father, Michael, is white and from the same small town. Leonie also technically lives there, but she’s gone so often that Jojo doesn’t even call her Mom or Mama – he calls her Leonie. ![]() His mother, Leonie, is neglectful, a drug addict and incredibly self-centered woman, and he and his little sister, Kayla, live with their mother’s parents, Pop and Mam. In Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jojo turns 13 and finds out his father is getting released from prison. I guess I have to just start talking about it, huh? Rest in power, King, and Wakanda forever. And it was incredibly powerful, especially in light of the death of beloved actor Chadwick Boseman, whose turn as Black Panther, Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall were groundbreaking and nuanced and just POWERFUL. I finished it YESTERDAY but I knew that if I waited to review it, it would lose some of its power for me. I am… going to potentially have some trouble really putting this book into words. ![]()
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