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A review by rosa_inverno
Built from the Fire by Victor Luckerson
5.0
I picked this up after hearing an interview with the author on the "Here's Where It Gets Interesting" Podcast. (Go give it a listen!)
An interesting thing to note: I was expecting a history of Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood and the massacre that occurred there. I was somewhat surprised when we got to what I believed would be the climax of the book in the first third. "What is the rest of the book about?" I thought briefly. Well, that's the key thing about this book. It's as much about what took place that night in 1921 as it is the aftermath, the intergenerational trauma and its effect on survivors, their descendants, and the community for the decades following the event itself -- the aftershocks were just as important and this discussion of them is what sets this book apart a historical analysis.
An interesting thing to note: I was expecting a history of Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood and the massacre that occurred there. I was somewhat surprised when we got to what I believed would be the climax of the book in the first third. "What is the rest of the book about?" I thought briefly. Well, that's the key thing about this book. It's as much about what took place that night in 1921 as it is the aftermath, the intergenerational trauma and its effect on survivors, their descendants, and the community for the decades following the event itself -- the aftershocks were just as important and this discussion of them is what sets this book apart a historical analysis.