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 2020 NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this National Book Award-longlisted, 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. A BiblioLifestyle Most Anticipated Literary Book of the Summer.A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of the Year.A Washington Post 10 Books of the Month.A Good Morning America 15 Summer Book Club Picks.A New York Times Book Everyone Will Be Talking About.It just consumed me.' -Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Book Club Pick A combination of historical and modern story-I’ve never read anything quite like it. I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family…. A Chicago Public Library Top 10 Best Books of the YearĪn Instant Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller.A Booklist 10 Best First Novels of the Year.A BookPage Best Fiction Book of the Year.An Oprah Daily Top 20 Books of the Year.A Washington Post 10 Best Books of the Year.LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEĪ New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year.SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE.A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION.LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

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