Singt, ihr Lebenden und ihr Toten, singt

Jojo and his little sister Kayla live with their grandparents Mam and Pop on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie, her mother, barely cares about her. She does drugs and works in a bar. When she's high, Leonie is haunted by visions of her dead brother that torture and comfort her. Mom is terminally ill with cancer, and the quiet and reliable pop tries to keep the house in order and teach Jojo how to grow up. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she puts her children and a friend in the car and drives to the "Parchment Farm", the state penitentiary, to pick him up. A journey full of danger and hope. Jesmyn Ward is both touching and unsentimental about a black family in a society marked by poverty and deep-rooted racism. What do family bonds mean?