Audiobooks Narrated by Rutina Wesley

Voices

WE ARE THE POEMS WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR Voices is an interdisciplinary audio play and campaign grounded in Black women’s stories to unify the vision of ending violence against women across the African Continent and African Diaspora. Its goal is to use art to embody and inspire solidarity-making in the collective imagination. Over two years of gathering stories, engaging in collective study, and collaborating with Black women and non-binary actors and musicians across the African continent and diaspora led to creation of this audioplay. Told through monologue, song, and poetry, Voices provides a unique space for people to gather, engage the meaning of return and diaspora, and envision a world where African women are collaborating and loving each other across cultures, borders, and customs.

Aja Monet, Bella Laia, Black Girls Glow Ft. Anabel Rose, Black Girls Glow ft. Anabel Rose, Ceclia Faussart, Chamari White-Mink, Chelsea Williams, Cynthia Manick, Dalychia Saah, Dorothy Randall Gray, Flavia Diniz, Frieda Ndeutala Mukufa, Itohan Omolere Osaigbovo, Jasmine Knowles, Ms. Fu, Nana Adjoa Agyepong, Pamm Takyiwaa, Poetra Asantewa & Wendy, Renee Wilson, Roslyn Smith, S. Pearl Sharp, Toya Lillard, Ursula Nyaboke Gisemba, Vanessa Appiagyei, Vangile Gantsho, aja monet (Author), A Full Cast, Bisserat Tseggai, Carolyn Harrison, Denise Burse, Liz Mikel, Liza Jessie Peterson, Mars Rucker, Mumbi Kaigwa, Nyla Watson, Rutina Wesley, Staceyann Chin, Stephanie Berry, Tyshawna Maddox, Zonya Love Johnson, a full cast (Narrator)

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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

*WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize *Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal *Publishers Weekly Top 10 of 2017 The searing and profound odyssey of a Southern family-by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Wards's first novel since her National Book Award-winner, Salvage the Bones, she returns to Mississippi and the grand themes of her earlier work. Confronting the realities of life in the rural South, Ward gives us an epochal story, a road novel through Mississippi's past and present that explores the bonds of family as tested by racism and poverty. Told in Ward's rich, lyrical language, this majestic novel is impossible to ignore. For Pop and Mam, their daughter Leonie, and her kids Jojo and Kayla, life is hard: Mam has cancer, Pop is preoccupied by working their small parcel of land, Leonie has a meth problem, and Jojo and Kayla seek love from their grandparents rather than their absent mother. Their lives are further complicated when Leonie gets the call from the white father of her children that he's up for parole. She quickly gathers her kids, recruits a friend for the ride, and embarks on the journey north to the Delta to collect Michael at Parchman Farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary. But no journey for a woman like Leonie through this state is without danger, and many things go wrong, sometimes dramatically. If the trip to Parchman is rocky, the return is worse, and arriving at home doesn't bring Leonie and her family the peace they seek. Instead, two battles ensue: one with Mississippi's present and another with its horrific past. Raw, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Jesmyn Ward's novel grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of our national story, paying tribute to Faulkner and Morrison, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, all while showcasing the major talents of this singular American voice.

Jesmyn Ward (Author), Chris Chalk, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Rutina Wesley (Narrator)

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