Footsteps

About the Book

Footsteps: A Novel by Umm Zakiyyah is the third novel in the trilogy following If I Should Speak and A Voice. At the heart of the novel is the story of Ismael, a forty-seven-year-old biracial son of a White mother and Black father, and Sarah, a forty-nine-year-old White daughter of the racist South. Married for twenty-six years and having embraced Islam together, their stable marriage faces strain when a secret kept for months begins to fracture their life together.

What You'll Discover

• The ongoing journeys of characters introduced across the trilogy.
• A complex portrait of marriage, race, secret-keeping, and faith.
• The interweaving life of a multicultural researcher examining challenging questions of identity and family.

More About the Author

Umm Zakiyyah is the author of Footsteps, If I Should Speak, and A Voice.