Co-presented with the NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. Over a decade in the research and writing, Isabel Wilkerson's magisterial work of narrative history, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random House), is one of those rare books which stands out not only in its publication season, but over some serious time. This is one of those books, tracing the lives of three African-Americans, their individual decisions to move from the South to the North or West (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles), and how those decisions played out over their lives and that of their families, in a time ranging from World War I into the 1970s. "Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation—the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west." - David Levering Lewis. "Profound, necessary, and an absolute delight to read." - Toni Morrison. Presently a professor of journalism and director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University, Isabel Wilkerson received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1994, while working for the New York Times. The Warmth of Other Suns is her first book. May it not be her last, though whatever else she does, this book has duration about it. Free admission. The Northwest African American Museum is at 2300 South Massachusetts. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600 or see www.naamnw.org.