Hold Them Close Format:Hardcover not linear

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow

”—Reese WitherspoonAfi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana

For more than four hundred years

Hold Them Close Format:Hardcover not linearHold Them Close, a love letter to Black children, is a picture book celebration of African American past, present, and future, written by celebrated author of Your Name Is a Song, Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow, with gorgeous collage artwork by celebrated Brooklyn based artist Patrick Dougher and photography by renowned Brooklyn photographer Jamel Shabazz. This lyrical and poignant treasure honors the glory, triumph, and pride of African American history