Yo, welcome in, welcome in, welcome in, this is the House of L podcast.

I'm Lauren Tombs.

Thank you so much for clicking on the episode.

I truly appreciate it, especially considering that my guest for this episode, it's so great

to talk with her because Dawn Turner has spent her journalistic career like really delving

into the minutia that is Chicago, like understanding how it works from a political standpoint, understanding

how it works from a neighborhood standpoint, understanding how it works and an inequity

standpoint.

She has cut her teeth covering this city in a lot of ways as a reporter on the beats,

like out here kicking up dirt, trying to figure out what is going on in the city to being

a columnist.

She's done a little bit of everything working for the Tribune in the book and we'll talk

about the book in a second, like she talks about like starting out at the sun times.

She's been at the Washington Post at PBS NewsHour, CBS Sunday morning, on NPR, it's great.

She has spent a lot of time writing novels, she's got a couple of those, but she wrote

a memoir of sorts called Three Girls from Bronzeville.

The subtitle is a uniquely American memoir of race, fate and sisterhood.

I saw this book was coming out, I've always followed Dawn on Twitter and I saw that she's

putting this book out, I was like, I gotta get my hands on this book, I gotta read it.

So I reached out to her and she was nice enough to send it to me.

But I love about the book itself.

If you're a Chicagoan, I think the story is universal, the story of her, her sister and

...