"A wonderful urban novel full of vitality and pathos and grit. "A wonderful urban novel full of vitality and pathos and grit." -Dennis Lehane "May slowly builds suspense as he persuasively unfolds the narrative in this work that reads like an Agatha Christie mystery." - Library Journal perfect for book clubs." - Booklist, starred review BEDROCK FAITH by Eric Charles May RELEASE DATE: MaIn this debut, May (Fiction Writing/Columbia College Chicago) walks the streets of Parkland on Chicago’s South Side, exploring race, community and religion. " novel of epiphanies, tragedies, and transformations. Before long, tension and suspicion reign, and this close-knit community must reckon with questions of faith, fear, and forgiveness. With uncompromising fervor (and with a new pit bull named John the Baptist), Stew Pot soon appoints himself the moral judge of Parkland-and starts wreaking havoc on people's lives. Motley, a widowed retired librarian and the Reeves' next-door neighbor, who loans Stew Pot a Bible, which is seen by him and many in the community as a friendly gesture. Most folks are skeptical, with one notable exception: Mrs. The anxiety only grows when Stew Pot announces that he experienced a religious awakening in prison. The residents are in a tailspin, dreading the arrival of the man they remember as a frightening delinquent. One of Roxane Gay's Top 10 Books of the YearĪfter fourteen years in prison, Gerald "Stew Pot" Reeves, age thirty-one, returns home to live with his mom in Parkland, a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. One of Booklist 's Top 10 First Novels of the Year
An ex-convict returns to his Chicago community a changed man-but maybe not for the better-in this "vivid, suspenseful, funny, and compassionate novel" ( Booklist).
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