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By Isabel Wilkerson (trade paperback)

“This is narrative nonfiction, lyrical and tragic and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, finally, isn’t argument at all; it’s compassion. Hush, and listen.” – The New Yorker

In this epic, beautifully writtens masterwork, Pulitzer Prize – winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great unfold stories of American history: the decaders-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for Northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million  peolpe changed the face of American. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and officials, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.