6/8/2023 0 Comments The warmth of other suns pages![]() ![]() Isobel Wilkerson won a Pulitzer for her journalism, so readers expect that she won’t have any trouble getting the facts straight.Īfter all, this is a work about history, so the details - those names and dates, charts and statistics - matter. And a lot of words, too: immediately the reader wonders how these long-named people will take on a presence in the sprawling narrative. ![]() In the beginning, these names are just words on a page. ![]() ![]() Ida Mae Brandon Gladney. George Swanson Starling. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster. It’s “The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”, as the subtitle states, and Isabel Wilkerson tells the story through the experiences of three individuals. These aren’t words commonly associated with reading non-fiction.Įvery one of them is an accurate description of Isabel Wilkerson’s chronicle of “the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century”. ![]()
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