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

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers’s sweeping first novel follows Ailey Pearl Garfield as she comes of age and, as a historian, digs into her own family’s roots in a Georgia town. Interwoven songs carry the reader back through slavery, Creek and Cherokee history, and generations of ancestors. Vast in scope, the book braids one family’s private story with the long, painful history of race in America.