![]() ![]() And it shapes a new understanding of why Southerners’ new lives in strife-torn cities far from home may not have been easier than the lives they left behind. Her closeness with, and profound affection for, her subjects reflect her deep immersion in their stories and allow the reader to share that connection. ![]() does a superb job of capturing the way whole lives can be changed by small outrages, and the way those changes are neither irrevocable nor simple. Wilkerson’s tone in a book sure to hold many surprises for readers of any race or experience. One interviewee’s remark that leaving the South 'was like getting unstuck from a magnet' best sets Ms. Although the book contains its share of much rougher stories, it is these seemingly workaday ones that hit hardest. ![]() Anthony Lukas’s great, close-range look at racial strife in Boston. a mesmerizing book that warrants comparison to The Promised Land, Nicholas Lemann’s study of the Great Migration’s early phase, and Common Ground, J. Hard work, keen insight and passionate personal commitment make The Warmth of Other Suns a landmark piece of nonfiction. ![]()
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