To Do Justice
Series: The Chicago Trilogy, Book III
Publisher: Key Literary
Published: 2024
Place of publication: Chevy Chase, MD
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9798990440913
Copyright date: 2024
First sentence: Ever since I'm little I be wondering who my momma is.
Description: An IndieReader Best Book
A Readers' Favorite® Five Star Selection
Five Stars – Reedsy Reviews
Midwest Book Review – Five Stars
Winner, First Prize, Chicago Writers Assn. Novel Contest

It's 1965, hot summer in Chicago. Pinkie, 10, yearns to know her birth mother. Pinkie 'looks White' but is being ‘raised Black’ by Jolene.

A riot erupts. Pinkie runs away. She's taken in by Missus Sawhill, a hunchbacked crone -- and also the richest, most powerful person in her West Side precinct.

Mollie encounters Judy, a nun -- who, we'll discover, is Pinkie's birth mother.

A year passes. Pinkie and Mollie meet. A cautious relationship begins.

Dr. King brings open-housing campaign to Chicago; he moves in near Pinkie.

Pinkie's loses beloved 'baby sister' Bettina during another riot. Bereft, she begs Mollie's assistance.

But then Pinkie falls into the clutches of Rev Bivens, King's right-hand man. Bivens puts her at the head of a march where she braves a gantlet of White hatred. But Bettina is in the march too. They flee.

At last Pinkie and Judy meet; but Judy says: 'I can't be your mom'.

Sawhill masterminds massive fraud; Mollie and Steve reveal it. Sawhill goes to jail. Jolene -- who stole Pinkie as infant and lives off her child support -- goes too. Pinkie and Bettina are now alone. Mollie would adopt but Pinkie declines: 'I'll find my own way now.'
Table of contents: title: Summer 1965; title: Chapters 1-13; title: Summer 1966; title: Chapters 14-41; title: Epilogue