“The sky is light enough for Tazia to read the signs: NIGGER LOVER, NO COLORED IN KANSAS, NO SLAVES FOR HIRE. The marchers swig from jugs of whiskey.” 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.