Alicia Latimer, African-American Resource Center coordinator and member of the Tulsa Race Riot Centennial Commission, will review "Dreamland Burning" by Jennifer Latham.
Sponsored by Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries. When 17-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's Tulsa property, she has no idea that investigating a brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past ... and the present. Nearly 100 years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels teenager Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through the interwoven alternating perspectives of the two teens, Latham brings the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 to life and raises important questions about the complex state of race relations.
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