Book: The Warmth of Other Suns
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Pages: 640
This is my 151st read for the year
What Amazon Says:
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 6 million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from WWI to 1970. Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, who is 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who is 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.
This was an excellent book. It was captivating from beginining to end. It is well written, and I love that she followed a few people for may years (into the 2000s). I learned a lot, and am glad I read it.
Stars: 5
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