~ Hardcover

~ Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction - 2022, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction - 2022

~ New Release - 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era . . .

A magisterial epic, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force reminiscent of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Water Dancer.

“A vibrant and tender coming-of-age novel about what it means to be a Black woman in America.  [Ailey’s] journey features complex and intimate narratives of love and heartbreak from her family’s two centuries in the American South, giving her not only insight into her family’s complicated past, but also the tools to imagine her own future.” -- Time