Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Paperback Tour Comes to Atlanta’s Carter Center

Jesmyn Ward comes to Atlanta’s Carter Center this week as part of her Paperback Tour. The novelist and an associate professor of English at Tulane University has won many accolates, including the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex Award.

She will be at the Carter Center on Thursday, May 9, 2013. The event starts at 7 and ends at 9 p.m. Get tickets here.

Ward’s tour is in support of her newest book, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” published by Simon & Schuster. The book is about Jojo, 13-year-old is trying to become a man.

Jesmyn Ward comes to Atlanta’s Carter Center

From the website: “He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager.”

In August 2016, Simon & Schuster released the Ward-edited The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race,

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