The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Condition: excellent. Spine crease

Gripping, gorgeous. A sweeping family saga that is also history at its most intimate and vital

STEF PENNEY, AUTHOR OF THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES

Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the City in the north and summers spent in her mother's hometown of Chicasetta, Georgia. From an early age, she finds herself in a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hurt in her past, as well as the whispers of women - her mother, her sister and a maternal line reaching back two centuries - that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.

To understand her own story, 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.