League of Women Voters of Naperville

October Book Group - Friday: Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
2026-10-16 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom Meeting
Join us on Friday, October 16th at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Author: Jennifer Gonnerman
GoodReads Description:
Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills
prison for selling cocaine–a first offense–under New York's Rockefeller drug laws. The book
opens on the morning of January 26, 2000, when Bartlett is set free and returns to New York
City. Over the next months, she clashes with her daughters, hunts for a job, visits her son and
husband in prison, negotiates the rules of parole, and campaigns for the repeal of the laws that
led to her long prison term.

October Book Group - Tuesday: Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
2026-10-20 19:00 - 20:00
Join us on Tuesday, October 20th at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Author: Jennifer Gonnerman
GoodReads Description:
Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills
prison for selling cocaine–a first offense–under New York's Rockefeller drug laws. The book
opens on the morning of January 26, 2000, when Bartlett is set free and returns to New York
City. Over the next months, she clashes with her daughters, hunts for a job, visits her son and
husband in prison, negotiates the rules of parole, and campaigns for the repeal of the laws that
led to her long prison term.

November Book Group - Friday: Three Girls from Bronzeville
2026-11-20 12:30 - 13:30
Join us on Friday, November 20th at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Three Girls from Bronzeville
Author: Dawn Turner
GoodReads Description:
They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and
headstrong; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They
bonded as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on
Chicago’s South Side. A celebration of sisterhood, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black
women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and
how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption.

November Book Group - Tuesday: Three Girls from Bronzeville
2026-11-24 19:00 - 20:00
Join us on Tuesday, November 24th at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Three Girls from Bronzeville
Author: Dawn Turner
GoodReads Description:
They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and
headstrong; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They
bonded as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on
Chicago’s South Side. A celebration of sisterhood, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black
women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and
how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption.
