I seem to be in the mood for recommending big, meaty books you can really sink your teeth into because today’s nonfiction recommendation is exactly that. I’m not going to recommend a honking book that feels like work to wade through, because that’s not what I’m about in my current reading moment. Instead, I present you with one of the most exquisite works of nonfiction I’ve read in a long time, perhaps in my lifetime, and it’s about a chapter of U.S. history that deserves the time, care, and attention to detail it received in this book. The subject is the Great Migration, the massive migration of Black Americans from the South to the North in search of safety, a better future for themselves and their children, and freedom from Jim Crow. Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson is our guide through this seminal, underacknowledged history and the lives of three of its unforgettable participants.
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