Folks have been telling me to read this for years! Not that I’d try and sell you a book or anything, but have you picked this one up? One of the best works of American history I’ve ever encountered! Wilkerson not only explores the mess of our past, she weaves personal stories into a narrative that explains so much about where we are. “The Warmth of Other Suns” follows three souls from their beginnings in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida to their homes in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. At first it seems they don’t have that much in common, but as you turn the pages you’ll discover their experience binds them, six million others that made the journey, and the rest of us together. These people will stay with you. I’ve read great novels with weaker characters. Every other sentence is exquisite. If even half our historians could bring this much insight and compassion to their subjects we’d all know where we’ve been and wouldn’t have to mumble, bumble and stumble around in the dark toward our future.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN:9780679763888
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/04/2011
Pages:640