Song unburied sing6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Just as the lives of the characters in her book are shaped by drugs, violence, teen pregnancy, poverty and racism, so too was Ward’s upbringing. Love introduced the author with a befitting forward on blackness and the American South, two themes that Ward’s characters grapple with in Sing, Unburied, Sing. Marlene Sandstrom, dean of the College, opened the talk by reaffirming the mission of Williams Reads, stating that the program is a way to “see and feel and understand the world through people who experience and see the world differently than us.” Sandstrom was then followed by Professor of English Kimberly Love, whose courses focus on the intersection of literature and the black experience. Ward reflected on the events that have shaped her life and influenced her as a writer. ![]() Last Thursday the College hosted Jesmyn Ward, author of this year’s Williams Reads book, Sing, Unburied, Sing. OctoWard’s book, Sing, Unburied, Sing, was inspired by her experience growing up as a black woman in the South. ![]()
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