Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois?s words all too well. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called ?Double Consciousness,? a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. The NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic?an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing Sing, Unburied, Sing and The Water Dancer?that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.
I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. See /privacy for more information.An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller ? AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION ? ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 ? WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONĪ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times ? Time ? Washington Post ? Oprah Daily ? People ? Boston Globe ? BookPage ? Booklist ? Kirkus ? Atlanta Journal-Constitution ? Chicago Public Libraryįinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel ? Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction ? Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction ? Nominee for the NAACP Image Award Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes or exclusive access to the in-store author events at Zibby's Bookshop in Santa Monica, CA. Check out Zibby and Kyle’s appearance on Good Day LA where they recommended this book here. Honorée shares how she wanted to infuse the book with memories from her childhood without stealing stories directly from her family, as well as how a prolonged period of loss and grief in her life has led her to form a deep connection with her characters. If you don't really love somebody, you just get past it." Zibby is joined by poet, professor, and author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers to talk about her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B.
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