 Hi, my name is Naima Dean. The book I'm presenting today to you to share my love of is A Measure of Time, A Measure of Time by Rosa Guy. The book basically starts out in the Jim Crow era with Doreen on a train headed from the south to the north and she goes to Harlem to meet her man who she sent up there with a bunch of money to set up a home. When she gets to Harlem and she sees Sunny, she realizes that her man has his own agenda. As a result, the young Doreen has to learn to fend for herself. She's a booster, a hustler. She's a gangster. She robs across the country with a team of other gangsters. She does time in jail. I first came across this book with right after high school and I read it and it was so vivid and alive. I found the main character, Doreen Davis, to be one of the most exciting characters I've ever come across. Before I became a librarian, my undergrad was theater and this story was like the one story that I always, the one character I always wanted to play, wanted to make a screenplay of, wanted to make a stage play of and just like share the vibrant Doreen Davis with everyone else. When I bought it, I loved it so much that I loaned it to a friend and never got the book back and so this was the first book that I chased down and looked everywhere and hunted to reclaim and own and add to my own personal library. My copy at home is extremely beat so that's why I'm using the library copy. I love this book so much. I'd probably take it on a date for Valentine's Day if it was real.