The Warmth of Other Suns: An American Epic
The Great Migration Told Through Three Lives
Isabel Wilkerson spent fifteen years on this book and it shows in every page. The Warmth of Other Suns follows three people who left the Jim Crow South in different decades: Ida Mae Brandon in 1937, George Swanson Starling in 1945, and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster in 1953. Each journey is different and the same. The structural choice of following individuals through a sixty-year migration makes the largest internal migration in American history feel the size of a life.
622Pages
15Years of Research
"The urge to migrate seemed to be in the blood of all living things.
"Isabel Wilkerson
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This is the book I recommend most when people ask about American history that reads as compellingly as fiction. It is the answer to that question every time.