Highly Recommended!
New York Times book critic Janet Maslin calls Isabel Wlkerson’s new nonfiction book—“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” which documents the 55-year-long migration of black Americans across the United States—”a landmark piece of nonfiction.”
Then this, today: “‘The Warmth of Other Suns’ is neither traditional history nor oral history. ‘I could have done a Studs Terkel, but I didn’t want that,’ Ms. Wilkerson said. ‘I loved and respected Studs, but I didn’t want the reader to be able to pick and choose what to read.’ Instead the book, influenced both by Steinbeck’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’ and the films of Robert Altman and Steven Soderbergh, rotates in a novelistic way among three main characters whose stories are interspersed with broader, more general inter-chapters.”
