Sing, the Unquiet, Sing

In this story, there are three narrators. Leonie, far from being the ideal mother of two children, is in a constant conflict with herself and those around her. Her thirteen-year-old son Jojo, who cares much more for his five-year-old sister than Leonie does, is learning from his grandfather what it means to be a man. And another narrator is the boy Richie, who died in Parchman prison, a contemporary of Jojo. Leonie and her children are heading to that very prison to pick up their just-released father, Michael. Along the way through Mississippi, both the characters and the readers learn a lot about family secrets and the hardships of life in the American South.