We will be discussing this year's One Book \, Everyone reads title\, Three Girls from Bronzeville \;by D awn Turner. \;They were \;three \;Black \;girls. Dawn\, ta ll and studious\; her sister\, Kim\, younger by \;three \;years an d headstrong as they come\; and Dawn's best friend\, Debra\, already prom- queen pretty by third grade. They bonded as they roamed the concrete lands cape of \;Bronzeville\, a historic neighborhood in Chicago's South Sid e\, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the r avages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Grea t Migration came of age in the 1970s\, in the warm glow of the recent civi l rights movement. Their striving working-class parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the \;girls \;have muc h more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdro pping on grown folks' business\, collecting secret treasures\, and daydrea ming about their futures--Dawn and Debra want to be doctors\, Kim a teache r. For a brief\, wondrous moment the \;girls \;are all giggles and dreams and promises of 'friends forever.' Then they arrive at a precipice \, a fraught rite of passage for all \;girls \;when the dangers an d the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood\ , when the choices they make can--and will--have devastating consequences. (Provided by the publisher)
\nThis program is presented as part of the library&rsquo\;s One Book\, Everyone Reads community reading program. Learn more about the series and this year&rsquo\;s selected book\, \;< em>Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner\, \;here.
\nCopies of the book are available \;here. Ebook and downloadable audiobook copies are available throu gh \;Digital Library of Illinois& nbsp\;or the Libby app.
\nRegistration will close two hours before t he program begins and registrants will receive a link to join shortly ther eafter.
\nPlease email community@wilmettelibrary.info with any quest ions about how to access the program via Zoom.
\n\nMake sure to join us for our signature author event\, a conversation between Dawn Tu rner and Alex Kotlowitz\, on Wednesday\, May 11\, at 7pm. \;Registe r here.
\nOne Book\, Everyone Reads is funded by the Friends of the Wilmette Public Library.
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