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 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 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.
I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.Atlanta Journal-Constitution įinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONĪ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times.
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