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| Jesmyn Ward |
Jesmyn Ward’s
Haunted Novel
of the Gulf Coast
“Sing, Unburied, Sing” is shadowed by
the long aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
4 September 2017
In the late summer of 2005, the novelist Jesmyn Ward, a native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, lived through Hurricane Katrina. After fleeing her grandmother’s flooding home, Ward and her family weathered the worst violence of the storm huddled in trucks spread across an otherwise empty field. “I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive,” she said in a 2011 interview with The Paris Review.
