{"product_id":"the-love-songs-of-w-e-b-du-bois-2","title":"The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn instant \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e USA Today \u003c\/em\u003eBestseller - 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003e- \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e - Oprah Daily - \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eBookPage\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e - Chicago Public Library \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Epic. . . . I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. . . . I've never read anything quite like it. It just consumed me.\" --Oprah Winfrey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eHomegoing\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSing, Unburied, Sing\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/em\u003e--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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAiley 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffers, Honoree Fanonne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eHonorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of five poetry collections, including the 2020 collection \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Phillis, which won\u003c\/em\u003e 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 to \u003cem\u003eThe Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Jesmyn Ward, and has been published in the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review, Iowa Review, \u003c\/em\u003e and other literary publications. Jeffers was elected into the American Antiquarian Society, whose members include fourteen U.S. presidents, and is Critic at Large for \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches creative writing and literature at University of Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607177859346,"sku":"9780062942937","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ede60e01-34ab-4f33-aa3f-d7e6a56538ca.jpg?v=1732305148","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-love-songs-of-w-e-b-du-bois-2","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}