

Wandering in Strange Lands
A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Author: Morgan Jerkins
Narrator: Morgan Jerkins
Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/04/2020
Synopsis
Following in their footsteps, Jerkins seeks to understand not only her own past, but the lineage of an entire group of people who have been displaced, disenfranchised, and disrespected throughout our history. Through interviews and hundreds of pages of transcription, Jerkins braids the loose threads of her family’s oral histories, which she was able to trace back 300 years, with the insights and recollections of black people she met along the way—the tissue of black myths, customs, and blood that connect the bones of American history.
Incisive and illuminating, Wandering in Strange Lands is a timely and enthralling look at America’s past and present, one family’s legacy, and a young black woman’s life, filtered through her sharp and curious eyes.