“One man brandishes a log wrapped in kerosene-soaked rags. He pulls a box of matches from his pocket. ‘Turn those nigger ladies and kids outta there or I’ll set your house afire,’ he says with a woozy grin.” A quote from the historical novel Tazia and Gemma. After the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, an unwed immigrant and her young daughter flee west in search of freedom and encounter racism in Kansas in the early 1900s. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
