The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
- Publisher: Harper Collins
- ISBN: 9780008516499
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By Honorée
Fanonne Jeffers
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‘Deeply moving’
Sarah Winman, author of Still Life
‘Remarkable’ Afua
Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)
‘A sweeping epic
… Outstanding’ Daily Mail
Immerse
yourself in a celebration of Black womanhood and an epic tale of the stories
that span generations.
Ailey Pearl
Garfield grows up between the City in the north and summers spent in her
mother’s small hometown of Chicasetta, Georgia. From an early age, she finds
herself in a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hurt
in her past, as well as the whispers of women—her mother, Belle, her sister,
Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—that urge Ailey to
succeed in their stead.
To come to terms
with her identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past,
uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors—Indigenous, Black,
and white—in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full
heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty
and resilience that is the story—and the song—of America itself.
‘Mesmerising…
magnificent’ Independent
‘Astonishing…
A great work infused with love and honesty’ Alice Walker, author of The
Color Purple
‘Gripping,
gorgeous. A sweeping family saga that is also history at its most intimate and
vital’ Stef Penney, author of The Tenderness of Wolves
LONGLISTED FOR
THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION
FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN LITERARY PRIZE
New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • Time 10
Best Books of the Year • Washington Post 10 Best Books of the
Year • People 10 Best Books of the Year • Booklist 10
Best First Novels of the Year