The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Wilkerson, Isabel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 5 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY AND TIME'S 10 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE "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 ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, USA Today, O: The Oprah Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Salon, Newsday, The Daily Beast In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic mig