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Violence
A lot
Slavery violence, sexual violence, and racial violence across historical timelines
Language
Some
Strong language; period racial slurs in historical context
Sexual Content
Some
Adult sexual content across multiple timelines, including non-consensual scenes
Substance Use
Some
Substance use in multiple character storylines
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Profound psychological weight; trauma, grief, and the generational burden of American racial history
What this book is about
Jeffers's debut novel follows Ailey Pearl Garfield across her life in the late 20th century, intercut with the multigenerational history of the Creek and African American families whose blood she carries back to the antebellum South. At nearly 800 pages, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is a demanding and deeply rewarding work of African American literary fiction — a family epic that is also a history of violence, survival, and creation, drawing on Du Bois's concept of double consciousness.
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Slavery and racial violence
Sexual violence
Adult content
Multigenerational trauma themes
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