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Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is actually a labor of love. It needed 15 years to research and write, as she interviewed over 1,200 people. Wilkerson tracked down her things at churches, quilting golf clubs, funerals, family reunions, yet others. After initial rounds of interviews, she narrowed her search right down to 30 people, and then chose the three main things who appear in the reserve. She was rushing against the time to collect as much stories as possible from the migrants, whose figures were starting to dwindle. Her book even protects the funerals of both George Starling and Robert Pershing Foster. In order to write her storyline in a heartfelt manner, Wilkerson recreated Robert Foster's exhausting drive from Louisiana to California. Dr. Foster drove through three claims without rest because blacks weren't welcome at any motels in those locations. Wilkerson's trip was cut short by her parents, who insisted she stop before getting dangerous degrees of fatigue. At an especially perilous tract of the drive, Wilkerson writes that her mom said, "You understand he will need to have been ready to cry right about here."
