歐普拉讀書會推薦書！ 她的故事，就是美國的故事。 國家圖書獎入圍詩人發表首部小說，私密而全面地描述一個美國南方非裔家庭，從交易奴隸的殖民時代、美國南北內戰，直到現代的數世紀世代遞嬗。 受美國民權運動家、首位取得哈佛博士學位的非裔美國人啟發， 少女深入探索家族過往，挖掘黑人、白人、與美國原住民交錯的驚人家族史。 Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the City in the north and summers spent in her mother’s small hometown of Chicasetta, Georgia. From an early age, she finds herself in a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hurt in her past, as well as the whispers of women―her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries―that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead. To come to terms with her identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors―Indigenous, Black, and white―in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story―and the song―of America itself.