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
"unrecognized immigration" within our own land. Through the breadth
of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its
research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed
herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
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