The Reader‘s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds.
Bogira tells the story of Laverne Williams’s life in almost novelistic detail, from her birth to her death, what it was like to be a girl in West Garfield Park in the 70s and 80s, growing up without a father, moving from apartment to apartment, sleeping cuddled up with your siblings to keep warm, ditching school to hang out with the boys by the viaduct, trying to figure out how to develop a marketable skill to get a job, hoping your own kids will be boys so you won’t have to raise your grandchildren.
