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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

A The NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic of African American historical fiction―an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of

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The book was chosen as the most American work after the Century Cycle, praised for weaving together personal and ancestral narratives that illuminate American history and identity.

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But then I chose the book, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honore Fanonne Jeffers.

— Episode: The Most American Episode of The Daily,...

Episode: The Most American Episode of The Daily, Ever.

The book was chosen as the most American work after the Century Cycle, praised for weaving together personal and ancestral narratives that illuminate American history and identity.

"

But then I chose the book, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honore Fanonne Jeffers.

That's The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honore Fanonne Jeffers. It weaves together two separate storylines--one about a girl growing up in the late 20th century and another about her ancestors living on the land that later becomes America--showing how history is alive and present today.

The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein said he had been savoring Jeffers' novel in the evenings, describing it as a multigenerational search for identity and a new American origin story.

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I've been listening to this as an audio book in the car. And in the evenings, I've been slowly savoring Honor Jeffers' latest book, a novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.

— Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Lo...

Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like

Ezra Klein said he had been savoring Jeffers' novel in the evenings, describing it as a multigenerational search for identity and a new American origin story.

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I've been listening to this as an audio book in the car. And in the evenings, I've been slowly savoring Honor Jeffers' latest book, a novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.

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