Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.

In her newest collection, National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. From her parents’ move from the South to Chicago to being raised as an “up North” child under the spell of Motown music, she captures the rampant romanticism of waiting and hoping and the dogged disappointment and damage of living under a delusion. Shifting fr...