Book guide
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
One woman’s family tree becomes the hidden song of America.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalResistanceHistoricalFamily sagaLiteraryLGBTQ+LiterarySelf-discoveryLiteraryComing of ageLiteraryFamily secretsLiteraryFamily sagaLiteraryIntergenerational traumaLiterarySocial commentary
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About The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between northern city life and summers in Chicasetta, Georgia, then digs into generations of Black, Indigenous, and white ancestry to understand the inheritance of oppression, resistance, and resilience.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- child abuse
- domestic abuse
- drug addiction
- murder
- racial violence
- racism
- rape
- sexism
- sexual abuse
- sexual assault
- slavery
- incest
- pedophilia
- child death
- colonisation
- racial slurs
- torture
- suicide
- abortion
- miscarriage
- grief
- infidelity
- sexual content
