Emily Raboteau

Searching for Zion Emily Raboteau

"I doubt there will be a more important work of nonfiction this year."-- Dave Eggers

In this landmark work of narrative nonfiction, award-winning author Emily Raboteau journeys from Harlem to Israel, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana and across the American South on a quest for the Black Promised Land.  A memoir that penetrates Raboteau's need for a homeland to call her own, Searching for Zion also expresses the African-American longing for full citizenship.