Time's Undoing

I never lived in the South, but both my parents migrated from Alabama to Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. I'm an historian whose first professional work was as a journalist, so Time's Undoing hit me in all the tenderest places.

This moving work of historical fiction captured my heart and imagination with a series of deft snapshots that pinged between present-day Birmingham, Alabama and a dark chapter in the city's early twentieth-century past. Cheryl Head mines her own family history to deliver a searing account of unsolved murder and racial injustice. The contemporary thread of this… show more.