The San Francisco Chronicle writes: “Not since Alex Haley’s Roots has there been a history of equal literary quality where the writing surmounts the rhythmic soul of fiction, where the writer’s voice sings a song of redemptive glory as true as Faulkner’s southern cantatas.”
Isabel Wilkerson's web page
Freedom Trains, New York Times Book Review
The Uprooted, in The New Yorker
David's Book Club: The Warmth of Other Suns, in the Daily Beast
Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Great Northern Migration, in The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf
In the Chicago Tribune
Via YouTube: Isabel Wilkerson, journalist and author of "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration," speaks at Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. The event was co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies.
From Litlovers - discussion questions.
Author's web page
Kirkus Review
What would we any of us do? by David R. Gillham
LitLovers summary, bio, questions
USA Today: Realism, tenderness elevate 'City of Women'
The SLATE Book Review: The Overlooked Books of 2012:
"Claire Lundberg recommends City of Women by David Gillham
Do we really need another World War II novel? This jaded reader sure did, because David Gillham’s City of Women is great. Set in Berlin in 1943, it’s about Sigrid, a bored German housewife who starts an affair with a Jewish man she meets in a movie theater, then quickly finds herself helping her lover smuggle his wife and children out of the country. The writing is a great mix of the literary and commercial, page-turning and suspenseful, with a morally complex, intelligent heroine at its center. If you’re a fan of well-written historical novels in the vein of Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, this one is for you."
What the reviewers say:
