Tough Luck: A Novel Sociology of Death chosen as Oprah's "Books That

chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club

* BookPage Magazine Best Books of the Year

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life

Gomez survived this way as long as his legs would carry him

for the first time in her life

Tough Luck: A Novel Sociology of Death chosen as Oprah's "Books ThatIn this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold mining father. After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold mine in Colorado Territory, and since then hes sent only three letters. Still, Haidie is certain that he is alive, has struck gold, and will soon send for them. But patience is