The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER TIMES TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESS FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth. John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal What

close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village

to the very sense of who they are

When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English countryside for a weekend away

Every day she sees the same people

At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son

Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather

Will wants no part in changing the sweet and lovely Annie

Delphie would be dying of embarrassment

and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways

River Peña

and full of surprises

Many years later