{"product_id":"9780679763888","title":"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilkerson, Isabel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_summary0679763880-content\" class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER •\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME’S\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES’S\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.” — John Stauffer,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“What she’s done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.” — Lynell George,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHeartland 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST: The PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUSA Today\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSalon\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Economist\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47723988746473,"sku":"9780679763888","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/files\/9780679763888_50856.jpg?v=1725558090","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/9780679763888","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}