![]() ![]() The tongue that speaks and trips on the names of the dead as it dares to tell these stories of a woman’s line.” Read the full review at the Washington Post. At the opening, set deep in the mists of history, we’re met with an incantation: Sweeping back and forth across the years, her narration shifts nimbly to reflect the tenor of the times - from the shared legends of tribal people to the candid realism of the modern era. ![]() Du Bois” is the protean quality of Jeffers’s voice. One of the many marvels of “The Love Songs of W.E.B. ![]() As any honest record of several centuries must, Jeffers’s story traverses a geography of unspeakable horror, but it eventually arrives at a place of hard-won peace. Yes, at roughly 800 pages, it is, indeed, a mountain to climb, but the journey is engrossing, and the view from the summit will transform your understanding of America.Ī poet whose most recent collection, “The Age of Phillis,” was longlisted for a National Book Award, Jeffers has poured a lifetime of experience and research into this epic about the travails of a Black family. Du Bois” is the kind of book that comes around only once a decade. ![]() Set in the American deep South, the novel explores African-American history before and after slavery, all the way to the present day America. It was published in 2021 by Harper Collins. Whatever must be said to get you to heft this daunting debut novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, I’ll say, because “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is a novel by American poet Honoree Fanone Jeffers, on her first outing as an author. ![]()
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