"Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise."--From publisher.
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ISBN: 1432846523
ISBN: 9781432846527
Physical Description:367 p. ; 23 cm.large print
Edition:Large print ed.
Publisher:Waterville, ME : Wheeler Publishing, 2018.
General Note: National Book Award for Fiction, 2017.