Wow, what an achievement. A truly fresh story with lots of undercurrents, so smartly written without being too pedantic. I think the only other book that comes close in terms of great story+deep thoughtfulness is Philip Pullman's “His Dark Materials” series.
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.
Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme…
Winner, New-York Historical Society Children's Book Prize
Winner, Social Justice Literature Award
Honor Title, Jane Addams Children's Book Award
Finalist, 2017 Cybils Awards
Nominee, Georgia Children's Book Award
Nominee, Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
Nominee, South Carolina Junior Book Award
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
An Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California Outstanding Title
Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends-just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941…
Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time.
Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.
These visionary tales span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be.
