The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 1st Ed 1st Printing

Description: The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois - Honore Fanonne Jeffers 1st Ed 1st Printing An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S "GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS" BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times Time Washington Post Oprah Daily People Boston Globe BookPage Booklist Kirkus Atlanta Journal-Constitution Chicago Public Library Finalist 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 "Epic. . . . I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. . . . Ive never read anything quite like it. It just consumed me." Oprah Winfrey The NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epican intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancerthat chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. The great scholar, W. E. B. 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. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Boiss words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americansthe revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmersAiley carries Du Boiss Problem on her shoulders. Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mothers family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging thats made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of womenher mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuriesthat urge Ailey to succeed in their stead. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her familys past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestorsIndigenous, Black, and whitein 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 storyand the songof America itself.

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Signed: No

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Narrative Type: Fiction

Original Language: English

Intended Audience: Adults

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Edition: First Edition

Vintage: No

Personalize: No

Type: Novel

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Features: Dust Jacket

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Book Title: Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois : a Novel

Number of Pages: 816 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Topic: African American / Contemporary Women, Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Women, Family Life, African American / General, African American / Historical

Publication Year: 2021

Item Height: 1.9 in

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 35.6 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover