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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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By (author): Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 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 mothers small hometown of Chicasetta, Georgia. From an early age, she finds herself in a battle for belonging thats made all the more difficult by a hurt in her past, 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 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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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

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Product Details
  • Weight: 560g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008516499

About Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer poet and essayist. She is the author of five poetry collections including The Age of Phillis which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry was longlisted for a National Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. She was a contributor to The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward and has been published in the Kenyon Review the Iowa Review and other literary magazines. Jeffers was elected into the American Antiquarian Society whose members include fourteen US presidents and is a critic at large for the Kenyon Review. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Oklahoma.

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