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A mesmerizing book that warrants comparison to the promised land, nicholas. Wilkerson does for the great migration what john steinbeck did for the okies in his fiction masterpiece, the grapes of wrath. I was most captivated by ida maes story because she was an immigrant to chicago, much like my paternal family in the 1910s. Chronicling one of the most underreported historical events of the 20th century, the warmth of other suns is as sweeping and dramatic as the most cherished american novelexcept every word of it is true. Pulitzer prize winner isabel wilkerson devoted 15 years to the research and writing of the warmth of other suns.

The warmth of other suns volusia county public library. The pulitzer prizewinning journalist chronicles the massive migration of blacks from the jim crow south, where racism was still entrenched, to the north and west. It was an alltoofamiliar dispatch from a particular time and place. One book, one chicago will be talking the warmth of other suns for a. The book intertwines a general history and statistical analysis of the. The warmth of other suns by isabel wilkerson overdrive. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, the warmth of other suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an unrecognized immigration within our own land. The epic story of americas great migration by isabel wilkerson.

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