The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
An Instant Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller
"Epic…. I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family…. A combination of historical and modern story—I’ve never read anything quite like it. It just consumed me."—Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Book Club Pick
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • An Indie Next Pick• A New York Times Book Everyone Will Be Talking About• A People 5 Best Books of the Summer• A Good Morning America 15 Summer Book Club Picks • An Essence Best Book of the Summer• A Time 11 Best Books of the Month• A Washington Post 10 Books of the Month • A CNN Best Book of the Month • A Ms. Most Anticipated Book of the Year• A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of the Year• A Book Page Writer to Watch • A USA Today Book Not to Miss • A Chicago Tribune Summer Must-Read • An Observer Best Summer Book • A Millions Most Anticipated Book • A Ms. Book of the Month • A Well-Read Black Girl Book Club Pick • A BiblioLifestyle Most Anticipated Literary Book of the Summer • A Deep South Best Book of the Summer• Winnerof an AudioFile Earphones Award
The 2020 National Book Award–nominated 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.
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 Bois’s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s 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 mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, 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 own 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.
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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffersis a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of five poetry collections, including the 2020 collectionThe Age of Phillis, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry and the PEN/Voelcker Award. She was a contributor toThe Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward, and has been published in theKenyon Review, Iowa Review,and other literary publications. Jeffers was elected into the American Antiquarian Society, whose members include fourteen U.S. presidents, and is Critic at Large forKenyon Review. She teaches creative writing and literature at University of Oklahoma.
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Adenrele Ojo
Karen Chilton
Prentice Onayemi
