Lessons from "Under the Broom Tree" by B. E. Matthews

B.E. Mathews shares stories from her life with Dr. Chaps via Skype.

Dr. Beena Wilkins, who writes under the pen name B. E. Mathews, is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch and completed her pediatric residency training at the University of California at Irvine. She is a board-certified pediatrician with almost two decades of dedication to the well-being of children and adolescents.

In her debut book, Under the Broom Tree, she offers a fresh perspective regarding current mental health issues and shares her own soul-searching story about growing up in a hushed, closed-off Indian culture. She uses the life of Elijah, the greatest prophet of the Old Testament, as a powerful example of the common, fallible humanity in all of us.