![]() Ward employs three different voices, rather than Faulkner’s fifteen, to tell a story. ![]() In Sing, Unburied, Sing, it is one of two grandparents, Mam, who is lying at the edge of the next world, but for the entire book. Faulkner’s laying-down person is Addie, who leaves the physical world early in the narrative. ![]() Both novels are round-trips that become marathons. (This won Ward the National Book Award for fiction.) Sing, Unburied, Sing makes reference to As I Lay Dying, though it doesn’t need Faulkner to make its bones. Salvage the Bones (2011) follows Esch, a pregnant teenager who loves Greek mythology, living in the days before Hurricane Katrina. Ward’s 2008 debut, Where the Line Bleeds, is about twin brothers struggling to get by in Bois Sauvage. Faulkner reimagined Lafayette County, in the northern half of Mississippi, while Ward has used Bois Sauvage in three novels to stand in for the small towns of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which could include DeLisle, where Ward grew up. ![]() Faulkner had Yoknapatawpha County and Jesmyn Ward has Bois Sauvage-neither real, both true. ![]()
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