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    "description": "A breathtaking and ambitious debut novel that chronicles the journey of multiple generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era, by prize-winning poet Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers.\n\nThe great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called \u2018Double Consciousness,\u2019 a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois's words all too well.\n\nAiley grows up in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother's family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women \u2013 her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries \u2013 that urge her to succeed in their stead.\n\nTo come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors \u2013 Indigenous, Black, and white \u2013 in the deep South. In doing so she must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story \u2013 and the song \u2013 of America itself.\n\nAn intimate yet sweeping novel with all the dazzling force of Yaa Gyasi\u2019s Homegoing and Jesmyn Ward\u2019s Sing, Unburied, Sing, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is unforgettable debut that is set to be one of the most talked about books of the year.",
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