“The faces on the street changed from white to black, and multistory brick buildings gave way to squat wooden structures: salvaged barn boards, tin, and tar paper, with newspaper stuffed into the chinks.” A quote from the historical novel Tazia and Gemma. After the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, an unwed immigrant and her young daughter flee west in search of freedom and encounter racism in Kansas in the early 1900s. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
