Dawn Turner Trice Books in Order

Eleven-year-old Tempestt Saville moves with her family into a guarded enclave for Chicago's Black elite in 1975. Her curiosity draws her beyond its protective boundaries, where a friend's death sets off events that expose divisions between neighboring communities.

An Illinois community gathers for its annual celebration of emancipation and the formerly enslaved people who founded the town. Told through multiple voices, the novel follows an extended family and a white woman connected to them as festivities revive painful memories and old resentments.

Dawn Turner revisits growing up in Chicago's Bronzeville with her sister Kim and best friend Debra. Their sharply diverging adult lives lead her to examine how race, class, opportunity, and loss shape individual futures, while remembering the friendship and dreams they once shared.