A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book A Best Book of
2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple An "unmissable" (Vogue),
"exceptional" (The Washington Post), and "evocative" (Chicago
Tribune) 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 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. 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 futures-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 "deeply personal" (Real
Simple) 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
redemption.
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