Southern & American Gothic

When the Reckoning Comes

by LaTanya McQueen

A Black woman returns to her hometown for a wedding at a former plantation. The dead disagree.

More Southern & American Gothic

• The Devil All the Time — Donald Ray Pollock
• The Heavenly Table — Donald Ray Pollock
• House of Bone and Rain — Gabino Iglesias
• Beloved — Toni Morrison
• Boy's Life — Robert McCammon
• American Rapture — CJ Leede
• Ring Shout — P. Djèlí Clark
• Bastard Out of Carolina — Dorothy Allison

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