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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Auteur(s): Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi
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An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times • Time • Washington Post • Oprah Daily • People • Boston Globe • BookPage • Booklist • Kirkus • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Chicago Public Library

Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction • Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • Nominee for the NAACP Image Award

""Epic. . . . I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. . . . I’ve never read anything quite like it. It just consumed me."" —Oprah Winfrey

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.

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. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders.

Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women—her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.

To come to terms with her own identity, 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.

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 Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature mondiale Chicago African American Historical Fiction
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Amazing book, the narration leaves something to be desired. The narrator uses whiney and or childish tones for several characters that makes it hard to listen to at times.

One of my favorite fiction books

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This was really hard to listen to because of the horrific reality of race relations in the 19th century (and beyond). Hard as it was, it enriched me. I am better for having listened to this

Enriching and Devastating

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Didn’t really like the end, I want it more of it, did she got married.!?

Amazing

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This is a very difficult listen but absolutely worth it. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Fantastic production and excellent story.

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This multigenerational tome was chosen purely as it was recommended by a book youtuber I follow. I really wanted to like this, but it was though I was reading a different novel to them. I started with this 30 hour audio but after a few hours bought the book too as I thought it was my fault that I found huge chunks of the novel long, flat and two dimensional (even though the narration was very good).

The historical sections were interesting (although too much sexual violence reported almost in passing with little effort to show the impact on the survivors or the community). The more contemporary main storyline of the very immature, precocious, Ailey and her romances was lengthly and not engaging. As a coming of age story I found I was largely uninterested in her growth or her ridiculous reasonings for her prickly and almost combative realations with her school/undergraduate peers.

That is until about the 550 page mark when the book started to tie together all the threads, Ailey finally gained some maturity and the emotional resonance that was missing from the first chunk of the novel was delivered (especially in the historical scenes). At that point I found I could not put the book down.

The character of Root was fasciating, and I did want to know what happened to Nick, but for such a sprawling choppy work the author did a great job in tying up so many threads at the conclusion of the novel.

I wanted to like it more

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One of the most satisfying novels I have ever read. The book spoke to me in an aesthetic so powerful and true that I at times had to put it down, gather my breath and start again. This author has produced a work of art for the ages.

Magnificent story telling

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When I saw the length of this book, I was unsure if it would keep my interest until the end. It did not disappoint. It was so well written.

Great until the end

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The last couple of hours were really good, but this book is much too long. It doesn't need to be this to tell the story.

Way too long

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