Libertie Divination lip-smackin’ look at America’s favorite

lip-smackin’ look at America’s favorite comfort cuisine and traces soul food’s history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South

“Winner of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship

We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon

while living under the shadow of a history “that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves” (The Wall Street Journal)

Rekia Boyd

Libertie Divination lip-smackin’ look at America’s favoriteNamed One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by: O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Millions, Refinery29, Publishers Lunch, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, BookPage, Harper's Bazaar, Ms., Goodreads, and moreAn elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed. Roxane Gay, author of HungerLibertie is a feat of monumental thematic imagination.Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The New York Times Book