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DEBUT Ailey, the central character of this multigenerational saga from Jeffers (a National Book Award finalist in 2020 for her poetry collection The Age of Phillis), is the youngest daughter of an upwardly mobile Black family. Though they live in a Northern city, the family has roots in rural Georgia, where Ailey, her mother, and sometimes her siblings spend the summers. The account of Ailey's coming-of-age and self-actualization is interspersed with interludes called "songs" t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More