Super Short Summary

In the fictional southern Mississippi town of Bois Sauvage, a biracial boy named Jojo celebrates his 13th birthday amidst his grandmother's terminal cancer and his mother's drug addiction. The family travels to Parchman to retrieve Jojo’s father, Michael, from prison, encountering a series of supernatural events and complex familial relationships along the way. The novel involves violence, drug use, and racially-motivated murder.