{"id":41768,"date":"2021-09-18T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=41768"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:37:54","slug":"septembers-celebrity-book-club-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/septembers-celebrity-book-club-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"September’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the beginning of the month which means that Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager, and Reese Witherspoon have picked new books for their book clubs! Reminder that if you join our Best Sellers Club<\/a>, these titles will automatically be put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey has selected\u00a0The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers.<\/p>\n

Curious what The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher:<\/p>\n

The 2020 National Book Award\u2013nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic\u2014an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer\u2014that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.<\/em><\/p>\n

The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called \u201cDouble Consciousness,\u201d a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois\u2019s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans\u2014the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers\u2014Ailey carries Du Bois\u2019s Problem on her shoulders.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother\u2019s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that\u2019s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women\u2014her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries\u2014that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.<\/em><\/p>\n

To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family\u2019s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors\u2014Indigenous, Black, and white\u2014in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story\u2014and the song\u2014of America itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

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