Negroland

<p><b>'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, <i>Guardian </i></b><br><br>The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. <br><br>Reckoning with the limits and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America - Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. <br><br>Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. <br><br><b>'<i>Negroland</i> is a sharp-eyed cultural commentary on an era of America that has often been too simply told' Aminatta Forna, <i>Guardian</i><br> </b><br> <b>'Jefferson writes with piercing clarity of a childhood which was full of love and opportunity at home, but also saturated by contradictions, confusions and a racism which corrodes, like rust, to the heart's core' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br> <b>'Utterly compelling... a remarkable achievement' <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>