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Jesmyn Ward — Sing, Unburied, Sing

2017 novel and second National Book Award winner — Mississippi Gulf Coast family on a road trip to a penitentiary.

Ward's previous Salvage the Bones (2011) also won the National Book Award. She is the first woman to win the National Book Award in fiction twice.

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