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Lucinda Roy concludes her explosive speculative fiction trilogy, The Dreambird Chronicles, with the triumphant The Bird Tribe.
Yearning is the only compass you need to fly a way home.
Two years after Ji-ji's miraculous flight on her own impossible wings, the Dream of Freedom has stalled. The Rising promised by Prophet Dreg has not occurred. Ji-ji's fellow seeds, living in bondage on plantings, had started to believe the legend of Flying Africans was more than just a myth enslaved people told themselves.
But in a polarized nation, torn apart by a Civil War Sequel, faith is slippery.
Ji-ji's quest to discover the truth behind her people's origin story will send her, Afarra, and the men they love on a perilous transatlantic pilgrimage to find answers to questions that haunt her: Were Wingchildren engineered by those who experimented on imported humans? Or is she part of an improbable myth? An ancient tribe of Flying Africans from the Cradle, who etched their own remarkable story into the stuff of dreams.
Book three of The Dreambird Chronicles
The Dreambird Chronicles
The Freedom Race
Flying the Coop
The Bird Tribe
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. LUCINDA ROY is an award-winning novelist, poet, and memoirist, and a lifelong advocate for diversity and inclusion. She's lived and taught on three continents and is recognized for her keynotes on race and gender, creative writing, and education reform. Her commentaries and poetry have been published in numerous newspapers and journals, including USA Today, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Roy lives with her husband in Blacksburg, Virginia, where, as a distinguished professor, she teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech. The Freedom Race and Flying the Coop are the first two books in the Dreambird Chronicles.
Praise for Flying the Coop
"This second volume in Roy's Dreambird Chronicles... keep[s] the focus on the three young protagonists. What carries them forward are seeds of hope, anger, and history and the belief that they can force change. With strong connections to current events and an unflinching look at how things could be, Flying the Coop is an essential read."-Booklist, starred review
Praise for The Freedom Race
"Every now and then a work comes along that makes you wonder whether you are reading or dreaming. And you're not sure it matters which."-Nikki Giovanni
"Roy's comprehensive worldbuilding and immersive language creates a tapestry that blends realistic fantasy with the Black experience in the United States. The deliberate pacing and visceral descriptions of planting life will not suit all readers, but the investment is worthwhile. Ji-ji's journey is a story of resilience and hope rooted in a place where Octavia Butler and Rivers Solomon intersect with The Handmaid's Tale."-Booklist
"You ever have the feeling that if you don't read something, you may be missing out on something momentous happening? . . . I got that vibe from the first page of The Freedom Race. It has a prescience about it in the tradition of Octavia Butler. . . . If 'resilience' was a book, it would be The Freedom Race."-Maurice Broaddus, author of Buffalo Soldier
"Roy (The Hotel Alleluia) turns to speculative fiction for the first time with this lyrical, Afrofuturist hero's quest set in the not-too-distant future. ...[Ji-Ji's] harrowing but profoundly spiritual quest for sovereignty against all odds impresses. Readers ... will appreciate both the tenacious heroine and Roy's intricate prose stylings."-Publishers Weekly
"The future Lucinda Roy calls up in The Freedom Race is a fierce, unsettling riff on our past and present. Instead of watching democracy evaporate and justice fail, Ms. Roy challenges us all to get over ourselves and join the race for freedom."-Andrea Hairston, author of Will Do Magic for Sma
Yearning is the only compass you need to fly a way home.
Two years after Ji-ji's miraculous flight on her own impossible wings, the Dream of Freedom has stalled. The Rising promised by Prophet Dreg has not occurred. Ji-ji's fellow seeds, living in bondage on plantings, had started to believe the legend of Flying Africans was more than just a myth enslaved people told themselves.
But in a polarized nation, torn apart by a Civil War Sequel, faith is slippery.
Ji-ji's quest to discover the truth behind her people's origin story will send her, Afarra, and the men they love on a perilous transatlantic pilgrimage to find answers to questions that haunt her: Were Wingchildren engineered by those who experimented on imported humans? Or is she part of an improbable myth? An ancient tribe of Flying Africans from the Cradle, who etched their own remarkable story into the stuff of dreams.
Book three of The Dreambird Chronicles
The Dreambird Chronicles
The Freedom Race
Flying the Coop
The Bird Tribe
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. LUCINDA ROY is an award-winning novelist, poet, and memoirist, and a lifelong advocate for diversity and inclusion. She's lived and taught on three continents and is recognized for her keynotes on race and gender, creative writing, and education reform. Her commentaries and poetry have been published in numerous newspapers and journals, including USA Today, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Roy lives with her husband in Blacksburg, Virginia, where, as a distinguished professor, she teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech. The Freedom Race and Flying the Coop are the first two books in the Dreambird Chronicles.
Praise for Flying the Coop
"This second volume in Roy's Dreambird Chronicles... keep[s] the focus on the three young protagonists. What carries them forward are seeds of hope, anger, and history and the belief that they can force change. With strong connections to current events and an unflinching look at how things could be, Flying the Coop is an essential read."-Booklist, starred review
Praise for The Freedom Race
"Every now and then a work comes along that makes you wonder whether you are reading or dreaming. And you're not sure it matters which."-Nikki Giovanni
"Roy's comprehensive worldbuilding and immersive language creates a tapestry that blends realistic fantasy with the Black experience in the United States. The deliberate pacing and visceral descriptions of planting life will not suit all readers, but the investment is worthwhile. Ji-ji's journey is a story of resilience and hope rooted in a place where Octavia Butler and Rivers Solomon intersect with The Handmaid's Tale."-Booklist
"You ever have the feeling that if you don't read something, you may be missing out on something momentous happening? . . . I got that vibe from the first page of The Freedom Race. It has a prescience about it in the tradition of Octavia Butler. . . . If 'resilience' was a book, it would be The Freedom Race."-Maurice Broaddus, author of Buffalo Soldier
"Roy (The Hotel Alleluia) turns to speculative fiction for the first time with this lyrical, Afrofuturist hero's quest set in the not-too-distant future. ...[Ji-Ji's] harrowing but profoundly spiritual quest for sovereignty against all odds impresses. Readers ... will appreciate both the tenacious heroine and Roy's intricate prose stylings."-Publishers Weekly
"The future Lucinda Roy calls up in The Freedom Race is a fierce, unsettling riff on our past and present. Instead of watching democracy evaporate and justice fail, Ms. Roy challenges us all to get over ourselves and join the race for freedom."-Andrea Hairston, author of Will Do Magic for Sma
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"This second volume in Roy's Dreambird Chronicles... keep[s] the focus on the three young protagonists. What carries them forward are seeds of hope, anger, and history and the belief that they can force change. With strong connections to current events and an unflinching look at how things could be, Flying the Coop is an essential read."
Booklist, starred review
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- SeriesDreambird Chronicles #3