Books like The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the city and the Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother's people have lived for generations, and as she grows older she traces her family back through slavery to the land's first people.
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Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
Homegoing
Two half-sisters born in eighteenth-century Ghana never meet: Effia marries a British slaver and lives in comfort at Cape Coast Castle, while Esi is imprisoned in its dungeons and shipped to America, and the novel follows their descendants, one chapter each, to the present.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
In 1923 Hattie Shepherd, fifteen, flees Georgia for Philadelphia with her mother and sisters. She marries young, and over the following decades raises nine children, each of whom gets a chapter of their own.
Memphis
In 1995 Joan, ten, flees with her mother and younger sister to her mother's family home in Memphis, where three generations of women have lived and survived.
Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
Love Medicine
The Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, from the 1930s to the 1980s, told in many voices.
Go Down, Moses
Linked stories about the McCaslin family across generations, tracing the entangled Black and white branches of a Mississippi plantation.
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange widens There There across 150 years, from a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre through an Indian boarding school to the Oakland family still reeling from the powwow shooting.
Celestial Bodies
Three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi, Mayya, Asma and Khawla, marry and live through their country's changes, from the last years of slavery to the coming of oil money.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
In 2045 Dorothy Moy, a Seattle poet afraid of passing her depression to her daughter, tries a treatment that lets her relive the memories of her ancestors, back to Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to come to America, in 1834.
East of Eden
Two brothers in California's Salinas Valley reenact the story of Cain and Abel across two generations, fighting over land, love, and their father's approval.