The Warmth of Other Suns

The Great Migration told as the epic it was, through three people who left the South across the decades of the twentieth century and the six million who reshaped the country by leaving. Wilkerson spent fifteen years on the reporting and wrote it like literature. The book recovers an American movement so large it changed the nation's cities, music, and politics, yet was lived one frightened, hopeful departure at a time. History at the scale of a single human choice, multiplied by millions.

The journalist who told the story of the Great Migration as the epic it was. The Warmth of Other Suns follows three people who left the American South across the decades of the twentieth century, and through them the six million who reshaped the country by leaving. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting before the book, which reads like literature and rests on fifteen years of research.