Time’s Undoing
(Dutton, 2023)

Saturday, September 30
2:00 p.m.
Rollins Community Center and Lewes History Museum

About the book
This novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929 was inspired by the author’s own family history. Meghan McKenzie, a reporter at the Detroit Free Press in 2019, has grown up hearing family lore about her great-grandfather’s murder, but no one knows what really happened, and his body was never found. Determined to find answers to her family’s long-buried tragedy, and spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement, Meghan travels to Birmingham to uncover the truth.

This event is presented in partnership with Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ).

About the author
Cheryl A. Head is a writer, television producer, and broadcast executive. She is the author of the award-winning Charlie Mack Motown mysteries, whose female private investigator is queer and Black. Head is vice-chair of the board of Boucheron, an annual gathering of mystery writers and fans.

Head will be in conversation with Adenike Marie Davidson at the event.

Adenike Marie Davidson, a professor of English and gender studies at Delaware State University, is chair of the board of Delaware Humanities. She is author of The Black Nation Novel: Imagining Homeplaces in Early African-American Literature

Purchase the book
Please help support local independent bookstores by purchasing this book at Browseabout Books, official bookseller of the History Book Festival. Online sources and digital versions are tempting; however, supporting local brick and mortar shops helps to preserve our vibrant main streets. Drop by Browseabout, order books online, or call the store at 302-226-2665. You also may purchase a copy at biblion in Lewes.

About the Festival
The History Book Festival is the first and only book festival in the United States devoted exclusively to history. With the help of our presenting funding partners — Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices I PenFed Realty — as well as our program and community partners, volunteers, and donors, the 2023 History Book Festival will be full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. Our Keynote Address is presented by Sally Mott Freeman and John K. Freeman, and our Closing Address is presented by Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence.

Special thanks to our program partners for their continuing support: the Lewes Public Library for event promotion and venue; Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival; Lewes Chamber of Commerce for event promotion, and the Cape Gazette and Delmarva Public Media, our media partners.

Additional thanks to our community partners: ACLU Delaware, Beebe Healthcare, CAMP Rehoboth, Historic Lewes Farmers Market, Lewes Historical Society, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach Historical Society & Museum, Seaside Jewish Community, and Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ).