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Book Review of The Last Hotel for Women: A Novel

The Last Hotel for Women: A Novel
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On Mother's Day, 1961, Birmingham crackles with tension as a busload of freedom riders arrive from "up North". A group of Klansmen, armed with pipes and clubs, greets them. Life will never be the same again.

When Dinah takes in a freedom rider injured in the Mother's Day melee, the conflicts within and beyond her well-ordered world reach a crisis point.