Brothers & Books: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Join Brothers & Books on Sunday, December 14th at 2pm as they delve into the story of our Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson’s best selling book, The Warmth of Other Suns.

Brothers & Books is a member-led book and discussion group for men of color of all ages.

This book club is the ideal forum to exchange thoughts and perspectives, to deepen your sense of community, and to diversify the selection of books on your shelf.

Brothers & Books looks forward to building a strong community of men who can pour into each other, centered around books and discussions that build and inspire.

Food and beverages are welcome!

ABOUT THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS:

In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970.

Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.

Purchase the book here.

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