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Sto caricando le informazioni... Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhooddi Dawn Turner
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 2.35 Show, don't tell. Read my full review here. ( ) Dawn Turner does an excellent job of portraying growing up in a black neighborhood of Chicago in the 60’s and 70’s. I grew up in a Chicago all white suburb during the same time period and our experiences couldn’t have been more different. The three girls Dawn, her sister Kim and best friend Debra all end up taking different paths in their life. Kim and Debra have drinking and drug problems. Kim’s problem ends up killing her and Debra’s problem ends up with her killing someone. Dawn herself ends up being a very successful journalist. It’s easy for people to think that if Dawn did it why didn’t Kim and Debra. This memoir makes one feel compassion and understanding about the path of everyone’s lives. I couldn’t put this book down. The first third is perfect. Beautiful. The rest is really really good, just some structural awkwardness and the usual difficulties of writing memoir about being an adult rather than a child. The love and hope and honesty of Turner are profound. She brings in so many social perspectives yet never loses the heart of the story -- which is her heart, really, and the hearts of the loved ones she writes about. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book A Best Book of 2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerful forces at work that allow some to flourish...and others to falter. They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bondedâ??fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girlsâ??as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. It has offered them a promise, albeit nascent and fragile, that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. Their working-class, striving parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks' business; collecting secret treasures; and daydreaming about their futuresâ??Dawn and Debra, doctors, Kim a teacher. For a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of "friends forever." And then fate intervenes, first slowly and then dramatically, sending them careening in wildly different directions. There's heartbreak, loss, displacement, and even murder. Dawn struggles to make sense of the shocking turns that consume her sister and her best friend, all the while asking herself a simple but profound question: Why? In the vein of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Three Girls from Bronzeville is a piercing memoir that chronicles Dawn's attempt to find answers. It's at once a celebration of sisterhood and friendship, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and re Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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