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  1. Aug 28, 2021 · Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers spent more than a decade working on her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which follows Ailey Pearl Garfield as she unearths the truths of her family.

  2. Aug 24, 2021 · The title “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” brings to mind, of course, the T. S. Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”. Jeffers is an award-winning poet, and she is never ...

  3. Jan 19, 2022 · The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois is published by 4th Estate (£20). To support the Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply. Explore more on these topics

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  5. Aug 23, 2021 · ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade Review by Ron Charles August 23, 2021 at 12:53 p.m. EDT

  6. Aug 24, 2021 · At 790 pages The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois was intimidating but I quickly found myself immersed in this saga, spanning several decades from an Afro-Indigenous family in the 1700s, to the 1800s during slavery in the south, to 2007, where Ailey Garfield is coming to terms with her family’s history and her desire for belonging. Ailey is one ...

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  7. Sep 6, 2021 · The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper).Stretching from the antebellum era to the late twentieth century, this ambitious début novel, by a noted poet, follows the ...

  8. Jul 29, 2022 · The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is a true epic, tracking the fictional family history of African-American protagonist Ailey Pearl Garfield back 8 generations in a fashion similar to Yaa Ngasi’s Homegoing. As the story unfolds, we see the tapestry of American history as it is woven together: white European settlers, enslaved Black people ...

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