Cameron-Ashley H. (BigGreenChair) reviewed on 6/19/2017 + 461 more book reviews

A couple times a year I select a nonfiction book for reading. 2017 brought me to The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. What an eye opening, outstanding and much-needed book. While I've always considered myself an understanding, liberal person having NOT grown up around prejudice or ever tolerated people who were--this book made me realize that whether college-degreed and liberal or not--there is NO WAY the educated white public realizes the totality of the picture Isabel Wilkerson helps us to understand. And I do mean helps us. The entire book is written in a way to help us understand. I truly appreciate that she wrote the book about the great migration. Over and over as I was reading it I was embarrassed that I didn't know all the facts, but appreciative to her that she wrote it in a way that wasn't saying 'we hate you because of this.' I was born in 1948 but was in high school in the 1960's. There is much in this book I'd never heard before and I'm sure my parents and grandparents were unaware of also. It is a large book and I had to take it slow, but it was so well written and so educational I couldn't put it down. One of the reviewers on back page said 'Profound, necessary, and an absolute delight to read.' I can't say it was a delight to read, but it was definitely profound and necessary to read.

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