![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing was beautifully eerie and haunted me for a couple of days after. Rion Amilcar Scott’s ability to create a city completely from scratch is one that should not be overlooked. A remarkable feat considering it doesn’t exist outside the pages of this short story collection. Not to forget the water women that lure men to their watery graves, and the screecher birds who cry out for sacrificial flesh.įor me, Cross River became the most prominent city in America over the last couple of days. Established by the leaders of the country’s old successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, its residents thump out a beat that echoes its violent founding.Īmong them – spanning decades, perspectives and species- are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God’s last son Tyrone, a ruthless PhD student channelling the insurrections of his forebears through a childhood game Jim, a Robot Personal Helper desperate to escape a master who enslaves him and James-my-man, who travels the paths of the Underground Railroad year after year ![]()
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