“‘Do you really think they give a goddamn about a poor little white girl?’ Lula Mae’s skin burns the color of hot bricks. ‘You can walk out of this mess. We can’t.’” 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.
