The Warmth of Other Suns

wowwww like it's not a hot take that a Pulitzer-prize winning books is great but also, wow, it was great.

I was a little intimidated to start reading it because it's long and my attention span has been frazzled due to the everything, but it's SO interesting and so readable. It was brilliant of her to focus in on 3 of her many interviewees (while supplementing with other research/anedcotes from other interviews) because it gave you these three “main characters” (who are real people) to follow and be invested in.

It's really compelling and infuriating. (Also there's some graphic descriptions of lynching that I regretted reading before bed personally!) But truly an important and great book that fills in a lot of gaps left by most US history classes/books etc.