Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Morgan Jerkins

304 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. But while this event transformed the complexion of America and pr...

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Moods

informative 91%
reflective 76%
challenging 43%
emotional 40%
inspiring 21%
adventurous 14%
sad 14%
hopeful 12%
dark 7%
tense 6%
funny 1%
mysterious 1%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 28%
fast 4%

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