A review by erintowner
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

4.0

Although this book is long it swept me along. I loved the sense of culture throughout this book--it reminded me of Zora Neale Hurston's writing. The women in this book were so strong and there were so many crappy men around them, of all races. The women had to put up with way more than they ever should have had to, from racist white grad school fellows to cheating husbands. This book deals with some incredibly heavy topics but they are worth wrestling with if you have the bandwidth. It was interesting to learn more about how the Creek and Cherokee interacted with enslaved people and the first white settlers. I also liked the use of the ancestors' voices in this book; it was better done than other books on similar topics. At the very end the book dragged a little but still enjoyable and worth the read even though it's 800 pages.