I became aware of Wilkerson’s work by reading Caste and purchased the audio version of this book, which took 23 hours, but it was worth the effort. Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns is one of the more ambitious works of narrative history I’ve ever read, with a sweeping, intimate chronicle of the Great Migration told through the lives of three ordinary yet emblematic African Americans who left the Jim Crow South in search of dignity, safety, and opportunity. Published in 2010, the book reframes migration not as a demographic shift but as an act of self-liberation. I […]