Riot baby

""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an in...

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Main Author: Onyebuchi, Tochi (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Tor, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for the crime of being a young black man in America, Ella-through visits both mundane and supernatural-tries to show him the way to a revolution that could burn it all down"--
Item Description:"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Physical Description:176 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781250214751
1250214750
Author Notes:Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night , which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder , and War Girls . He holds a B.A. from Yale, a M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School for the Arts, a Master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. His fiction has appeared in Panverse Three , Asimov's Science Fiction , Obsidian , Omenana Magazine, Uncanny , and Lightspeed . His non-fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Nowhere Magazine, the Oxford University Press blog, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. Riot Baby is his adult fiction debut.