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 1930's to 1940's and the late 1990's. 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.”

Babs Small is a retired pediatric hematologist/oncologist who has been published academically. This is her first novel. It was conceived after a trip to Mississippi in 2007 to visit her mother and aunts.

She lives on Whidbey Island, Washington with her partner, Susan, and dog/friend, Jasmine (Jazz). Jazz was named for her fictional counterpart in Faith’s Reckoning.

Visit Babs at www.babsmallpublication.com