![]() ![]() 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 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. A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of the Year.In Jeffers' deft hands, the story of race and love in America becomes the great American novel.” -Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn “This sweeping, brilliant and beautiful narrative is at once a love song to Black girlhood, family, history, joy, pain… and so much more. Performed by Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi ![]()
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