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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is the 2021 debut novel by American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.It explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present.
NEW YORK (AP) — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” her epic novel about racism, resilience The post ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ wins book critics ...
Jeffers' first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, was published to critical acclaim in August 2021. Oprah Winfrey announced on CBS This Morning that it was her new selection for Oprah's Book Club. [12] [13] [14] The book was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. [15]
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Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois was a preeminent sociologist, essayist, civil rights activist, and cofounder of the NAACP.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: Winner [72] Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle: Finalist [73] [74] [75] Joshua Cohen: The Netanyahus: Rachel Cusk: Second Place: Sarah Hall: Burntcoat: 2022 Ling Ma: Bliss Montage: Winner [76] Percival Everett: Dr. No: Finalist [77] Jon Fosse with Damion Searls (trans.) A New Name: Mieko Kawakami with Sam Bett ...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois; Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This; Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World; Nonfiction Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy; Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed; Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
According to at least one holistic, it appeared on more books-of-the-year lists than any other novel of 2021, edging over The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Crossroads, and Harlem Shuffle; this included high-profile ones created by The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Telegraph, The Times, and The Guardian.