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Also by Randall Kenan:

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, August 2023
Paperback
The Fire This Time, July 2007
Hardcover

LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD
By: Randall Kenan

Mariner Books Classics
August 2023
On Sale: August 15, 2023
352 pages
ISBN: 006332525X
EAN: 9780063325258
Paperback
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Fiction

“Nothing short of a wonder-book.”—New York Times Book Review 

The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literature—a sharp, rich exploration of what it means to be poor, Black, and gay in the United States.

A three-year-old boy begins to deliver messages from dead relatives. A zombie uprising is led by an evil preacher. A woman is haunted by a child her husband may have drowned. A pig talks. The stories in Let the Dead Bury Their Dead embody the type of fiction that defined Randall Kenan's career: set in the thinly veiled fictional Carolina town of Tims Creek, they follow a diverse cast of Southern folkways, and stare into a long shadow of history. A stunning mix of magic, myth, and folktales, Kenan masterfully portrays a world of varied voices, and in wondrous prose, brings to life the ghosts of our past and present.