When the Reckoning Comes: A Novel Binding:Paperback (Olive Editions) When turmoil erupts in their

When turmoil erupts in their kingdom and their marriage

One sacrifice

each other

With Mami's determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church

When the Reckoning Comes: A Novel Binding:Paperback (Olive Editions) When turmoil erupts in their"LaTanya McQueen's When The Reckoning Comes 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 Kindred, 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." Megan Giddings,