A remarkable work’ Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) It’s going to be a long time before I stop thinking about Ailey and Uncle Root. ”’A major, almost 800-page novel that beautifully, and traumatically, weaves a spell of a story about more than ten generations of an American family” - indigenous, African and European. It is something so remarkable I’m not sure we collectively ever even dreamed it.” - Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple ”'Astonishing… I lived in this novel for three weeks.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN LITERARY PRIZE.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is set to be one of the most talked about books of the year.

Sweeping, compulsive and deeply moving, The Love Songs of W.E.B. In doing so she 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. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well.įrom an early age, Ailey fights a battle to feel like she belongs, made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women – her mother, her sister and a maternal line reaching back two centuries – that urge her to succeed in their stead.Īiley decides to embark on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors – Indigenous, Black, and white – in the deep South. 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 kind of book that comes around only once a decade’ Washington PostĪ breath-taking debut novel that chronicles the journey of generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade to our own tumultuous era ‘Epic… It just consumed me’ Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Book Club ‘A remarkable work’ Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) ‘Deeply moving… it is magnificent’ Sarah Winman, author of Still Life ‘Astonishing… A great work infused with love and honesty’ Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple A TOP TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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