Storyteller Tony Romano is the author of the novels Where My Body Ends and the World Begins (Allium Press) and When the World Was Young (HarperCollins), along with the short story collection If You Eat, You Never Die (HarperCollins).
Read moreBook Review: Where My Body Ends and the World Begins
This moving coming-of-age novel deftly weaves together a pivotal moment in Chicago’s history and one young man’s tentative journey toward self-forgiveness into a powerful exploration of loss, community, and the resilience of the human mind and body.
Read moreBook Review: Dreamland Burning
In 1921, a rash argument over a pretty girl propels 17-year-old Will Tillman into a hotbed of racial tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As he begins to understand what Jim Crow really means, he faces difficult decisions between what is expected and what is right. Nearly 100 years later, 17-year-old Rowan Chase discovers a skeleton under the floorboards of her family’s backhouse. As she investigates the murder, she learns firsthand that history isn’t entirely in the past.
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