A review by booksandthebronxgirl
The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fay

2.0

It was just ok. I was expecting a bit more regarding character development and likability of characters. It seemed like it could be a book where you could develop an attachment to the characters but it was as if the author didn't have enough pages to get that effect. They were all sketched with pretty broad strokes and none of them were really that likable. The author touched on Prohibition, the 19th Amendment, the KKK, and miscgenation (which was the most interesting to me), but really didn't deal well with these issues that satisfactorily. The most interesting part of the book involved the film, The Birth of a Nation, and the audience's reactions to it in the theaters the girls were playing. The second most interesting part for me involved the only Black character, Tip, the tap dancer. But that wasn't really expanded upon so there really wasn't that much to hold my interest.