Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Published 2018 · 304 pages · 84,757 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Sing, Unburied, Sing to read?
Sing, Unburied, Sing scores 58 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Mississippi vernacular.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Ward's lyrical prose.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- Ghosts, history, family.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Mississippi detail.
- Narrative indirection: 60 out of 100
- Multiple narrators, ghosts.
- Symbolic density: 65 out of 100
- Ghosts, Parchman, goats.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Engaged grief.
- Resolution withholding: 60 out of 100
- Ghosts linger.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Multiple voices, supernatural.
How Sing, Unburied, Sing is regarded
Sing, Unburied, Sing holds a literary regard score of 75 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.