![]() ![]() ![]() 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. From acclaimed author Tonya Bolden comes the story of a teen girl becoming a woman on her own terms against the backdrop of widespread social change in the early 1900s. ![]()
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