TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne
TI  - The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: a novel 
SN  - 9780008516482
U1  - Fiction JEF-H 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - 4th Estate
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Georgia
KW  - African American families
KW  - African American women
KW  - African Americans--Race identity
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
N1  - 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.

From 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.

Ailey 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. 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.

Sweeping, compulsive and deeply moving, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is set to be one of the most talked-about books of the year
ER  -