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Author Talk | Vanessa Miller

"The Filling Station"

Join bestselling author Vanessa Miller in discussion of her latest book, "The Filling Station," a story of two sisters during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Two sisters. One unassuming haven. Endless opportunities for grace.

Sisters Margaret and Evelyn Justice have grown up in the prosperous Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma--also known as Black Wall Street. Then the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre upends everything they know and brings them unspeakable loss. Left with nothing but each other, the sisters flee along what would eventually become iconic Route 66 and stumble upon the Threatt Filling Station, a safe haven and the only place where they can find a shred of hope in oppressive Jim Crow America. 

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Books will be available for purchase and signing from Read It Again Bookstore. 

Vanessa Miller is a bestselling author, playwright, and motivational speaker. She started writing as a child, spending countless hours either reading or writing poetry, short stories, stage plays, and novels. Vanessa’s creative endeavors took on new meaning in 1994 when she became a Christian. Since then, her writing has been centered on themes of redemption, often focusing on characters facing multi-dimensional struggles.

Gabrielle M. Dudley is the Assistant Director of Public Services at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. She is the co-curator of the exhibition “At the Crossroads: Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker” and the curator of “She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers.”

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