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Book 2017

Dreamland Burning

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Publisher
Bound to Stay Bound Books
Language
English
Published
2017
  • Murder--Fiction.
  • African Americans--Fiction.
  • Race relations--Fiction.
  • Riots--Fiction
  • Riots
  • Race relations
  • Murder
  • Juvenile fiction

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, the present, and herself.

One hundred years earlier, a single 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 undertakes a painful journey toward self-discovery and must confront his own inner demons as he struggles 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 life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.

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