Dreamland Burning av Jennifer Latham

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<b>A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we''ve come with race relations.</b><div><em><strong><br></strong></em></div><div><em>Some bodies won''t stay buried.<br>Some stories need to be told. </em><br><br>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 present and the past.<br><br>Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided 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 must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what''s right the night Tulsa burns.<br><br>Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham''s lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life a