“This sweeping, brilliant and beautiful narrative is at once a love song to Black girlhood, family, history, joy, pain… and so much more. In Jeffers' deft hands, the story of race and love in America becomes thegreat American novel.”

—Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn

“If you read one book this year, choose this one. I went to bed thinking of Ailey Pearl Garfield and woke up thinking of her. With the arrival of this epic novel of family, race, and ancestral legacy, one of America's finest poets has announced herself as a storyteller of the highest magnitude. Absolutely brilliant.”

—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench and Balm

“As one of the most prolific poets of our time, Jeffers has penned a family saga that is just as brilliant as it is necessary, just as intimate as it is expansive. An outstanding portrait of an American family and in turn, an outstanding portrait of America.”

—Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U GivE

About Honorée

For over twenty years, she’s been lifting her voice on issues of Black culture, racism, American history, and gender through the medium of writing.

Poet

The Age of Phillis, Honorée’s latest poetry project, imagines the life and times of Phillis Wheatley Peters, the 18th-century woman who was the first African American to publish a book.

Novelist

Honorée’s first novel project, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, is both a coming-of-age journey and a multi-generational saga. At the heart of the story is Ailey Pearl Garfield, a young Black woman from a family of multi-racial ancestors in rural Georgia.

Essayist

Honorée is at work on her first (as yet untitled) nonfiction project, a collection of essays which charts personal, racial, and historical journeys. An essay from this project appears in KROnline.