![]() 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.Īiley 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. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. 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. 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. ![]() I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONįinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021. ![]() An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller ![]()
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