The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers · 2021
A young Black woman traces her family history from pre-colonial Africa through slavery to contemporary Georgia. Jeffers's 800-page debut is an epic that insists on the full scope of African American history without flinching. An Oprah's Book Club pick that genuinely deserved the platform.
The case against
Eight hundred pages, and the two timelines pull unevenly: the historical songs have the compression of scripture while Ailey's present-day chapters amble through grad school, family gatherings, and dissertation research at memoir pace. Whole sections repeat what earlier sections established. A great five-hundred-page novel lives in here, wrapped in three hundred pages of dutiful chronicle.
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