THREE GIRLS FROM BRONZEVILLE

Dawn Turner's deeply personal memoir about how she lost the two great loves of her life: her best friend to a life-altering crime, and her younger sister to addiction.

The book blends a sagacious investigative eye with an intimate personal story, resulting in a powerful mediation on friendship and sisterhood, and a penetrating exploration of the way various external forces in our lives shape us. The book answers the question: Why are some people able to withstand oppressive forces like poverty, racism, violence and some people cannot.

Dawn Turner is a former columnist for the Chicago Tribune and the author of the novel, Only Twice We've Reached for Heaven which was a Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year.