The Love Songs Of W E B Du Bois Honore Fanonne Jeffers by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 9780008516499, 0008516499 instant download after payment.

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. 

"The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is the kind of book that comes around only once a decade... it is, indeed, a mountain to climb, but the journey is engrossing, and the view from the summit will transform your understanding of America."  -  Ron Charles, The Washington Post

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.

"In her first novel, Jeffers, a celebrated poet, manages the difficult task of blending the sweeping with the intimate, and, as in most big books, she risks stress-testing some of her own narrative threads. Still, the sturdiest of those threads can throb with haunting poignancy... If this isn’t the Great American Novel, it's a mighty attempt at achieving one."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Sweeping, compulsive and deeply moving, The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a breathtaking 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.