kfitz finished reading The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race …
This took me a good bit longer to finish than I'd normally like, but largely because it was so beautiful that I took my time, lingering in the novel's moves between deep cultural history and modern family narrative. A beautiful reckoning with the continuing effects of historical trauma.