January Book Club Meetup

Join us for our January Book Club Meetup! We'll gather at Wet Stone Wine Bar in Bankers Hill to discuss Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner.

They bonded—fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls—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.

Dawn Turner is an award-winning journalist and novelist. A former columnist and reporter for the Chicago Tribune,…