text: When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen | Small Friend
  "LaTanya McQueen writes brilliantly and incisively about the haunted histories that lurk behind landscapes and road signs; the tidal pull of childhood friendships; what it means to leave home and what it means to return. When the Reckoning Comes is an extraordinary, beautifully-crafted debut." - Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel
  "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, author of Lakewood
  "Whether we know it or not, we are all haunted by history. LaTanya McQueen's When the Reckoning Comes makes that fact both startlingly real and beautiful. And while McQueen serves up stark lucidity and beauty, she doesn't hide from the darkness of the past, instead she makes meaning of it. This book is a wonder." - Rion Amilcar Scott, Author of The World Doesn't Require You