One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-
winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold
stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black
citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in
search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost
six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares
this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history.
She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to
new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly
dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering
our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical
detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three
unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping
and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet
blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he
ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George
Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered
his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally
found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953
to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles
as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed
him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant
parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and
exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives
in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed
these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved
them with discipline, drive, and hard work. 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 "unrec
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