The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Du Bois,' sprawls across centuries and continents, rural and urban, past and. Themes of family, class, higher education, feminism, and colorism yield many rich layers. An American epic about race and family, Honore Fanonne Jeffers' debut novel, 'The Love Songs of W.E.B. The multigenerational story bursts open when Ailey unearths some unknown family history during her graduate studies, as well as secrets of the Black female founder of her family’s alma mater. Du Bois - by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers 18. Du Bois’s theories emerge in epigraphs throughout and are sagaciously reflected in the plot, as the accounts of Ailey’s college life correspond to the “talented tenth.” Later, tragedy unfolds as Lydia, Ailey’s oldest sister who is haunted by childhood sexual abuse, succumbs to crack addiction. Du Bois An Oprah’s Book Club Novel By: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi Length: 29 hrs and 49 mins 4.8 (2,412 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Ailey follows in the footsteps of her parents, attending the southern HBCU where they met and married as undergraduates before moving north to the “City,” where Geoff attended medical school at Mecca University (a thinly veiled Howard). Throughout, historical sketches (or “songs”) link Ailey to her ancestors: Creeks, enslaved Africans, and early Scot slave owners. Ailey Pearl Garfield, the youngest daughter of Geoff Garfield, a light-skinned Washington, D.C., physician, and Belle Driskell Garfield, a Southern school teacher, reckons with ancestral trauma while growing up in the 1980s and ’90s. Poet Jeffers ( The Age of Phyllis) debuts with a staggering and ambitious saga exploring African American history.

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers