Sing, Unburied, Sing

On his thirteenth birthday Jojo follows his grandfather out to the pen to kill a goat, and makes himself watch every part of it, wanting to be the kind of man who does not look away. He will need that steadiness soon, in the back of a car with his baby sister on his lap and his mother high at the wheel, driving north through Mississippi to collect his white father from Parchman Farm.