Set against the backdrop of the press for women’s rights, the Red Summer, and anarchist bombings, Saving Savannah is the story of a girl and the risks she must take to be the change in a world on the brink of dramatic transformation. Inspired to fight for change, Savannah starts attending suffragist lectures and socialist meetings, finding herself drawn more and more to Lloyd’s world. Then Savannah meets Lloyd, a young West Indian man from the working class who opens Savannah’s eyes to how the other half lives. But lately the structure of her society–the fancy parties, the Sunday teas, the pretentious men, and shallow young women–has started to suffocate her. As a daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington D.C., she attends one of the most rigorous public schools in the nation–black or white–and has her pick among the young men in her set. Her forthcoming novel, Saving Savannah will be published Januand I’m so excited to read it since I thoroughly enjoyed Inventing Victoria.Ĭheck out the publisher’s synopsis for Saving Savannah: It was such a treat to have the opportunity to interview her to chat books. Tonya Bolden is one of my favorite writers for historical fiction for both children and adults.
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