Huntington Public Library Adult Reading Challenge

  Alabama, 1900. Regina Hubbard Giddens, passed over in money and power, attempts to make her fortune when her family strikes a deal to bring a cotton mill to the south. But when her brothers and husband try to cheat her, she does everything necessary to take them down, even if it means losing her daughter.

  A Pakistani-American lawyer who has given up his faith finds himself losing everything he has worked after he is quoted in the NY Times following the hearing of an arrested imam. And when he and his wife host colleagues for dinner, the conversation goes in directions no one is able to recover from.

  After a playground altercation involving two young boys, the parents meet up to try and reconcile peacefully. But the quiet civility turns into passionate anger as the two couples fail to see eye to eye.