Lisa McNair • Book Signing & Talk

1801 Jack Warner Parkway,Tuscaloosa AL 35401

25 October, 2022

Description

Join Ernest & Hadley Booksellers on location at the Tuscaloosa Public Library Rotary Room on Tuesday, October 25 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM, as author Lisa McNair introduces her memoir, Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew. Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement. This is a free event but reserve your seat(s) now! Click here for more details. "In Dear Denise, Lisa McNair takes the reader on a journey that at some point in our lives we all wish we could have: a conversation with a family member we never knew. In writing her letters to a sister who died in what should have been a safe place--her church--at the hands of white supremacists, Lisa in actuality has a conversation with Denise, walking the reader through the history of Birmingham and America, and her family, while continuing to seek the truths about our past and the direction for our future. It is conversations like these that will help us form that more perfect union we know as America." -- Senator Doug Jones, author of Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights