The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

Written By Mona Angéline
The Warmth of Other Suns - Mona Angeline Book Reviews

Another incredible ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ read.

I rarely ever agree to 600+ page nonfiction tomes, but this felt like one of those fiction epics you can't put down. Unfortunately, it's not fiction. The author describes the exodus of the black community moving away from the Jim Crow South between 1915 and 1970. Slavery had been abolished, but life remained eerily similar with maximally enforced segregation, lack of education, lynchings, and the same old back breaking plantation work.

The book tells the story of this "Great Migration" through the eyes of three families that left for better pastures, interwoven with short narrative sections relaying the general politics and economics of the era.

I couldn't put this down and read it in 36 hours. The book is incredibly educational, eye opening, scary, and then some. I'm so glad that we're working hard to bring change about. Black lives matter - so very much!

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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