Join us for the SOKC Teen Book Discussion!
Join us for the SOKC Teen Book Discussion! This month we are discussing Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham! Jennifer will also join us via skype and offer insights into the history and culture of her novel. Made possible in part by donations to Pioneer Library System Foundation.
Some bodies won’t stay buried.
Some stories need to be told.
When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past… and the present.
Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old 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 on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what’s right the night Tulsa burns.
Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham’s lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations – both yesterday and today.
(hachettebookgroup.com)
Registration encouraged but not required.