“Our oldest went to kindergarten in a toolshed. The Board of Education acted like they was doing us a favor adding a room for each grade, up to eighth.” 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.