Book reading to take place in Langley
Published 1:30 am Friday, April 14, 2023
“Faith’s Reckoning” is a novel that explores the personal nature of reparations for racial injustice. It is now available for purchase in print and eBook formats. Details can be found faithsreckoning.com. It can also be ordered online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads and through local bookstores. The eBook is available on Kindle and Nook.
The author, Barbara Small, will be reading selections from the book from 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m April 22 at Soundview Center in Langley, according to a press release. The event is open to the public and attendance is free.
“Faith’s Reckoning” is a story of two Americas, intimately intertwined, yet worlds apart. This multigenerational novel, set in the South, traverses the period between the 1930s to 1940s and the late 1990s. Through parallel storylines it explores the complex personal relationships between black and white families and includes three braids: The Wiggins family, who is part of the pain inflicted by the Jim Crow system, including a daughter who seeks, at the end of her life, to make amends; The Walker family, who responds to that system by helping shape the early civil rights movement, featuring the well-researched history of A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman Porters; And lastly, the descendants of those families who come together to reckon with the legacy left to them.
It is the love of the Delta Blues that forges a bond between these descendants and allows them to envision an organization that addresses reparations.
At its core, “Faith’s Reckoning” is a story about reparations for racial injustice. But it is also about the individual restitution we must make in our personal lives.
