Let The Dead Bury Their Dead - Kenan

Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of the Lambda Literary Award, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead is a collection of 12 stories that "hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literature—a sharp, rich exploration of what it means to 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. ... set in the thinly veiled fictional Carolina town of Tims Creek, (the stories) 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." (Books are Magic)