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Riot baby

ISBN: 1250214750
ISBN: 9781250214751
Physical Description: 176 pages ; 21 cm print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2020.
Copyright: &copy;2019

Onyebuchi, Tochi (author.).

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"--