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A review by scatfloyd
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Three Girls from Bronzeville is a beautifully written memoir about Dawn, her sister Kim, and her best friend Debra growing up in Chicago in the 70's and the trajectories of their lives to present day. Despite having similar upbringings their unique experiences send them in different directions in their lives.
This story has so much joy and heartbreak in the same breath...I laughed and cried throughout. Dawn Turner has a gift with words and Janina Edwards brings them to life in the narration. I could genuinely feel the emotion and felt like I was hurting and celebrating with each memory shared.
I don't want to write too much because I don't want to give away details on what happens in each woman's life, but I have to say read. this. book. It was the best book I've read in a while and I honestly think it could be in the top books I read this year!! It is raw and passionate and at the same time reflective and measured. It's about women and friendships and family.
Check out CW because there are more than a few.
A few quotes that I really loved. They have been slightly edited to hide potential spoilers...also I listened on audio so the punctuation is probably not exact :)
"Maybe because [we] started out together, I nursed a fantasy that we would both be standing at the same place at the same time. But we were on different trajectories."
"I used to think...that ours was a story about choices. Three girls who made vastly different ones. But it's really a story about second chances, who gets them, who doesn't, who makes the most of them."
"When I think about why I pushed my sister, and felt a stake in Debra's future, its because I wanted them to have their own piece of heaven"
This story has so much joy and heartbreak in the same breath...I laughed and cried throughout. Dawn Turner has a gift with words and Janina Edwards brings them to life in the narration. I could genuinely feel the emotion and felt like I was hurting and celebrating with each memory shared.
I don't want to write too much because I don't want to give away details on what happens in each woman's life, but I have to say read. this. book. It was the best book I've read in a while and I honestly think it could be in the top books I read this year!! It is raw and passionate and at the same time reflective and measured. It's about women and friendships and family.
Check out CW because there are more than a few.
A few quotes that I really loved. They have been slightly edited to hide potential spoilers...also I listened on audio so the punctuation is probably not exact :)
"Maybe because [we] started out together, I nursed a fantasy that we would both be standing at the same place at the same time. But we were on different trajectories."
"I used to think...that ours was a story about choices. Three girls who made vastly different ones. But it's really a story about second chances, who gets them, who doesn't, who makes the most of them."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Medical content, and Addiction
Moderate: Murder, Drug abuse, Grief, Cancer, Child death, and Sexual assault