National Book Award
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson transforms America’s Great Migration into an unforgettable epic through three remarkable lives. A New York Times Bestseller named one of the century’s best books—this is history that reads like fiction and changes how you see everything.
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This is the kind of book that changes how you see American history. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson takes one of the most profound yet overlooked movements in our nation’s story—the Great Migration—and transforms it into an unforgettable epic that reads like the finest fiction.
Between World War I and 1970, six million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South, seeking freedom and opportunity in the North and West. Wilkerson illuminates this massive exodus through three remarkable lives: Ida Mae Gladney, who left Mississippi’s cotton fields for Chicago; George Starling, who escaped Florida’s citrus groves for Harlem; and Robert Foster, a surgeon who drove west to California in search of a better life.
What emerges is both intimate and sweeping—a New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner that captures the courage, heartbreak, and hope of an entire generation. Wilkerson’s prose is luminous, her research impeccable, drawing from hundreds of interviews to give voice to those who risked everything for dignity and possibility.
The accolades speak volumes: named one of the New York Times‘s Five Best Books of the 21st Century, Time‘s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade, and winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize and NAACP Image Award. Critics have compared Wilkerson’s achievement to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath—high praise for a work that doesn’t just document history, but makes you feel it in your bones.
This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the American experience.
A landmark piece of nonfiction.
Epic in its reach and in its structure... A brilliant and stirring book.
Magnificent... Wilkerson has made many careers' worth of discoveries and connections... A definitive history of the Great Migration.
Stunning... A masterpiece.
Powerful and illuminating... Wilkerson's narrative is filled with surprising insights.
A brilliant and stirring epic, the first book to cover the full half-century of the Great Migration.
A narrative masterpiece... Wilkerson has taken on one of the most important demographic upheavals of the past century and told it through the lives of three people.
Superb... Essential reading for anyone interested in American history.
Breathtaking... Wilkerson has given us a book that speaks to the heart of the American experience.
One of the most important books I have ever read.
A riveting and essential book.
A sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden history.
| Weight | 0.29 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 7.76 × 5.08 × 0.44 in |
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| Subject | 20th Century, African American & Black, African American & Black Studies, American, Ethnic Studies, History, Social Science, United States |
| Accolade | National Book Award, New York Times Bestseller, PEN Award, Publishers Weekly Bestseller, Pulitzer Prize, USA Today Bestseller |
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