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Set during the inner-city riots of 1965-66,
To Do Justice tells the story of Pinkie, a mixed-race child of Chicago's meanest streets ... and Mollie, a lovelorn White reporter with The Associated Press. Together this unlikely pair will track down the White woman who gave Pinkie birth ... and score a Pulitzer-worthy scoop in the bargain.
Frank S Joseph's award-winning "Chicago Trilogy" novels --
To Do Justice, To Walk Humbly and
To Love Mercy -- tell a story of lives forever changed by racial turmoil that marked and marred Chicago at mid century, a great city going up in flames.
Frank lived it. As a White boy growing up on Chicago's South Side, he experienced the disruption of a racially changing neighborhood and the 'White flight' that followed. Then as an Associated Press journalist, he covered the '60s riots that wracked Chicago's inner city. Now he's retold this sweeping tale in his award-winning Chicago Trilogy.
About the author
Frank S Joseph is the author of the award-winning "Chicago Trilogy," novels that tell a panoramic tale of race, religion and social conflict in mid century Chicago. As an Associated Press reporter, he covered the inner-city riots of the mid '60s that inspired TO DO JUSTICE, the final "Trilogy" novel. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. called To Do Justice "a fast-moving tale of race, corruption and self-discovery set against the unrest -- and the hope -- of Chicago during Martin Luther King's fateful 1965-66 fair housing campaign." TO DO JUSTICE is published in Spring 2024 by Key Literary (ISBNs: 979-8-9904409-1-3 paperback; 979-8-9904409-0-6 e-book). TO LOVE MERCY, Trilogy Book 1, is forthcoming from Key Literary in 2024; TO WALK HUMBLY, Trilogy Book 2, is forthcoming from Key Literary in 2024-25.
