Jacqueline Jones

For fans of Sally Hogan and Ruth Page, comes this heartwarming tale about love, loss, and connection. Ernie has had three grand passions in his long, long life: his dear wife Phyllis, a vintage Norton Dominator motorcycle with enviably large panniers, and his mini-me, son Stephen. Now, as dementia overwhelms Ernie and takes away everything he can remember about the...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history" (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried). Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however,...