![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up, she struggles with this duality, a battle for belonging that shapes her identity. The daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, Ailey is raised in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother's family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans-the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother, the descendant of slaves and tenant farmers-Ailey carries the weight of this Problem on her shoulders. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood these words all too well. "My life had its significance and its only deep significance because it was part of a Problem," W. ![]() The award-winning poet and essayist makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic-an intimate yet sweeping novel with the freshness and forcefulness of Homegoing, The Turner House, and The Water Dancer -that chronicles the journey of one American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous time. ![]()
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