Lacy M. Johnson signs and discusses “The Reckonings”

Left Bank Books welcomes artist, activist, and author Lacy M. Johnson, who will sign and discuss her new essay collection, "The Reckonings"!

This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of "The Reckonings" from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line.

In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from "The Other Side," her “instant classic” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would like to happen to her rapist. This collection, a meditative extension of that answer, draws from philosophy, art, literature, mythology, anthropology, film, and other fields, as well as Johnson’s personal experience, to consider how our ideas about justice might be expanded beyond vengeance and retribution to include acts of compassion, patience, mercy, and grace. "The Reckonings" is a powerful and necessary work, ambitious in its scope, which strikes at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.