![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a multi-generational tale Ailey is surrounded by her grandmother, a great aunt, a great uncle - Uncle Root, one of my favorite characters - and a town full of interconnected lives, histories, secrets, and lineages. Over the course of 30 years, Ailey and her family make the trip down south to Chicasetta every summer and most holidays to visit family. No more details or words are needed to describe "the city" - it's just the place some of Chicasetta's residents travel to, get lost in, or return from (or not). The Garfields live in "the city" - that's up north, and by the way, every city in Jeffers's novel carries the same moniker. Ailey's sisters are Lydia, the eldest, and Carol Rose, the middle sister. We meet her as a three-year-old, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Specifically, we travel to Chicasetta, a rural town that once upon a time was a plantation, and before that a Creek village.Īiley Pearl Garfield is at the center of this sweeping saga. It focuses on a fictional African American family in Georgia, beginning before the state was Georgia. Spanning two hundred years, it takes an intimate look at race, feminism, love, and family as told by a line of unforgettable Black women from America's South. Dramatic, beautifully written, and compulsively readable, the novel brims from page to page with grand storytelling and heart. Du Bois is an immersive journey through American history. ![]()
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