{"product_id":"the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-migration-9780679444329","title":"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER  ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR  TIMES TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE  ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESS FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY  A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY  LOS ANGELES TIMESS #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS  AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES  A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece  The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history  giving it emotional and psychological depth.John Stauffer  The Wall Street Journal  What shes done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.Lynell George  Los Angeles Times  WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize  The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction  The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize  The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction  The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism  NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut  Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize  FINALIST: The PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction  Dayton Literary Peace Prize  ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times  USA Today  Publishers Weekly  O: The Oprah Magazine  Salon  Newsday  The Daily Beast  ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker  The Washington Post  The Economist  Boston Globe  San Francisco Chronicle  Chicago Tribune  Entertainment Weekly  Philadelphia Inquirer  The Guardian  The Seattle Times  St. Louis Post-Dispatch  The Christian Science Monitor  In this beautifully written masterwork  Pulitzer Prizewinning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life  from World War I to 1970.  Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney  a sharecroppers wife  who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling  who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem  and Robert Foster  a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California.  Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold  remarkable  and riveting work  a superb account of an unrecognized immigration within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative  the beauty of the writing  the depth of its research  and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein  this book is a modern classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45793945550901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679444327","price":41.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679444329.jpg?v=1784806830","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-migration-9780679444329","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}