When the Reckoning Comes

<p><strong>"LaTanya McQueen''s <em>When The Reckoning Comes </em>is so deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further. This is a novel, like Octavia Butler''s <em>Kindred, </em>that reminds its readers that as long as people don''t acknowledge how much of the past still shapes the present, it will bring its whips, its hatchets, and fists to make us learn."</strong> — <strong>Megan Giddings, author of <em>Lakewood</em></strong></p><p><strong>A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind.</strong></p><p>More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best frie