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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
 
“A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal

“What she’s done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.”—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times
 
WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize
 
FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize
 
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • USA Today • Publishers Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Economist •Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquirer • The Guardian • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Christian Science Monitor
 
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970.
 
Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California.
 
Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.

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One of the New York Times’s 5 best books of the 21st centuryOne of the New York Times’s 5 best books of the 21st century

San Francisco Examiner says sings a song of redemptive glorySan Francisco Examiner says sings a song of redemptive glory

Time Magazine says Wilkerson offers a history that reads like a novel yet speaks to abiding truthsTime Magazine says Wilkerson offers a history that reads like a novel yet speaks to abiding truths

Toni Morrison says, “Profound, necessary, and an absolute delight to read.”Toni Morrison says, “Profound, necessary, and an absolute delight to read.”

The San Jose Mercury News says, “Sheds light on a significant development in our nation’s history.”The San Jose Mercury News says, “Sheds light on a significant development in our nation’s history.”

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reprint edition (October 4, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679763880
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679763888
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1160L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.09 x 1.72 x 9.22 inches

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Customers find the book compelling and enjoyable to read. They find the history lesson insightful and educational, providing a riveting narrative of the crushing oppression African Americans endured. The writing quality is praised as beautiful, concise, and well-researched. Readers enjoy the captivating stories and find them emotionally moving and affecting. Opinions differ on the length – some find it long while others consider it a bit long in places.

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Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $10.63.

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