![]() ![]() Through the lens of these events, Savannah sees the need for activism and the ways in which she can make a difference. Saving Savannah follows affluent African American teenager Savannah as she navigates the tumultuous summer of 1919, a year that included the passing of the 19th Amendment, the Red Summer, and anarchist bombings. Bolden’s work draws lines directly from the past to the present in a powerful way-her newest novel is set a century ago and its messages are still relevant today. Tonya Bolden’s recent fiction ( Crossing Ebenezer Creek, Inventing Victoria, and now Saving Savannah) makes this very clear. Mark Twain probably never actually said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” but that doesn’t mean that the aphorism isn’t true. ![]()
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