Only in the past few years have people begun to draw attention to the events of that 1921 night. For decades this incident was buried, despite being one of the deadliest instances of racial violence in American history. Reconciling the relationships he forms with the life he grew up in, Will begins to realize his role in deeply-segregated 1920s Oklahoma as it all culminates in the Tulsa race riots of 1921.īefore reading Dreamland Burning, I had never heard of the Tulsa race riots, also known as the Tulsa race massacre. As she digs into the mystery, she uncovers hidden secrets about both Tulsa and herself.Ī hundred years earlier, Will Tillman is a seventeen-year-old working in his father’s Victrola shop at the height of racial tensions in Tulsa. In modern-day Tulsa, Rowan Chase is a typical girl who discovers a century-old skeleton on her family’s property. The novel follows two protagonists, each in Oklahoma but a hundred years apart. This book was recommended to me so many times that I gave in and read it, and I’m glad I did - Dreamland Burning is one of those books that sits with you long after putting it down. It shows Will Tillman and Rowan Chase, the protagonists. The cover of Jennifer Lantham’s novel, Dreamland Burning.
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