Deep Dive Review of How It Happens

Noted writer, librarian  and bookfluencer Jean Stehle has posted the following deep dive review of HOW IT HAPPENS on social media— "This book was an eye-opener about the complexities of miscegenation after the Civil War— information that doesn’t make it into the textbooks. HOW IT HAPPENS by @jeanaliciaelster intricately describes the new kind of bondage Black women were forced into when white men wanted to have a relationship with them during the late 19th century America.  I couldn’t love, nor...

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Powerful Response to HOW IT HAPPENS!

Artistic Director of the Children's Theatre of Michigan, m'Arch McCarty, recently shared this response with Jean Alicia Elster after reading HOW IT HAPPENS: "...I felt like I was eavesdropping on some extremely personal and private conversations, and I thank you for allowing that familiarity...Thank you for your candor, for opening my eyes, and for choosing young readers as your principal audience. They need to have this information to move us all forward."

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HOW IT HAPPENS is a community read!

HOW IT HAPPENS has been selected as a community read by the Sterling Heights Public Library (Michigan)! Free copies for Sterling Heights residents while supplies last. Elster presentation on February 15 open to all. More info here.

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