blackbirds don't cry

The branches are full, full of ghosts, in twos and threes, all the way to the top, to the feather-like leaves.

There are men and women, adults and children. They squat like birds...

do not be afraid.

Even if you will still shed tears in the future, don’t be afraid when facing the world in the future.

"Don't take other people's lives seriously. All lives are the same."

2017 National Book Award-winning novel

In 2018, he was selected as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

Within ten years, it won the National Book Award twice. What obstacles does writer Jessamine Ward face?

"As a writer who is unfamiliar to Taiwanese readers (I was also unfamiliar before reading this book), this work inspired me exactly like this: As a keen writer, Ward should know that the situation of black people is no longer the same as in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 》The ideology at that time, she had to find out where the dark river came from, where it flowed, and where she was at the moment. She had to write the "unskippable story" in Morrison's "Beloved" (This is not a story to pass on). "Blackbirds Don't Cry" is exactly her "story that cannot be skipped." - Wu Mingyi, special article recommendation "If you can't breathe, how can you sing?" 〉, the full text is included in the book

"The past is never over, not even past."

A boy wanders the farm every night, waiting for someone to take him home.

Jojo is a thirteen-year-old boy of mixed black and white race. He lives with his three-year-old sister Mecona and his grandparents in a small town in Mississippi. Because his mother Leonie is often not at home, and in order to escape She was grieving for her dead brother. Whenever she was at her peak when taking drugs, her brother who was killed by white people would appear in front of her eyes, and she became addicted to drugs. On Jojo's birthday, Leonie plans to take her two siblings to the state prison to pick up their white father, Michael, from prison. Seeing that his grandmother was about to pass away from cancer, the always silent and tenacious grandfather had to teach Qiao Qiao to grow into a man, so he talked about the mistakes he had made in the past, about the black boy Acai he had met at Gan Keren Farm many years ago. Qiao Qiao had always loved hearing her grandfather's story about "Gan Keren" and never thought that that farm was the predecessor of the state prison. On this day, the road to the prison shuttled through the countryside, crossing the past and present of Mississippi, blurring the boundaries between reality and magic. The journey started with hope, but a dark past quietly followed them home...