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Anyone who has read Jesmyn Ward's masterpiece SING, UNBURIED, SING is aware of how the word "Parchman" causes a cop to go all-in Visigoth during one harrowing pullover scene. Here's more on Unit 29, a prison that truly should be closed or reformed.

https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/life-death-and-the-surreal-at-parchmans-infamous-unit-29/

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Life, death and the surreal at Parchman’s infamous Unit 29

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laurapersister Dec 18, 2022

@BethBarnes
#MinJinLee (Pachinko, Free Food for Millionaires)
#LaurenGroff (Florida, Fates and Furies, Arcadia)
#AnthonyDoerr (All the Light we Cannot See; The Shell Collector)
#SeanGreer (Less, The Confessions of Max Tivoli)
#EmilyStJohn (Station Eleven, Sea of Tranquility)
#PhilippeDiederich (Playing for the Devil’s Fore, Sofrito)
#JesmynWard (Salvage the Bones; Sing, Buried, Sing)
#KhaledHosseini (Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns)
#BarbaraKingsolver (Poisonwood Bible)

Hughes, Grace Greggory Nov 26, 2022

#7Books Starting with fiction. I’ll share a poetry shelf tomorrow.

1) Sing Unburied Sing by #JesmynWard
2) Parable of the Sower by #OctaviaButler
3) This World Is Full of Monsters by #JeffVanderMeer
4) Thirty Names of Night by #ZeynJoukhadar
5) Circe by #MadelineMiller
6) Jitterbug Perfume by #TomRobbins
and 7) The Scarlet Letter by #NathanielHawthorne

#fiction #novel #books #reading