Memoir explores how racism and violence impacted 'Three Girls from Bronzeville'

NPR, November 15, 2021: Memoir explores how racism and violence impacted 'Three Girls from Bronzeville'

“How did two sisters, just three years apart, take extremely divergent paths in life? That's the story my guest, Dawn Turner, tries to figure out in her new memoir.

Turner is a journalist and novelist. For about 15 years, she wrote a column in the Chicago Tribune about race-related issues. Her sister, Kim, died at age 24 of what her death certificate attributed to chronic alcoholism. The memoir is also about Turner's childhood best friend, Debra, who was convicted of murder and spent years in prison.”

Additional reading:

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood on bookshop.org

Chicago Humanities Festival, October 20, 2021: Dawn Turner: Three Girls from Bronzeville

The New York Times, September 6, 2021: Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind