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The Freedom Race

#1 Dreambird Chronicles

Lucinda Roy

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English
St Martins/Tor
26 October 2021
"The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy's explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope.

The second Civil War, the Sequel, came and went in the United States leaving radiation, sickness, and fractures too deep to mend. One faction, the Homestead Territories, dealt with the devastation by recruiting immigrants from Africa and beginning a new slave trade while the other two factions stood by and watched.

Ji-ji Lottermule was bred and raised in captivity on one of the plantations in the Homestead Territories of the Disunited States to serve and breed more ""muleseeds"". There is only one way out-the annual Freedom Race.

First prize, freedom.

An underground movement has plans to free Ji-ji, who unknowingly holds the key to breaking the grip of the Territories. However, before she can begin to free them all, Ji-ji must unravel the very real voices of the dead.

Written by one of today's most committed activists, Lucinda Roy has created a terrifying glimpse of what might be and tempered it with strength and hope. It is a call to justice in the face of an unsettling future."

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Imprint:   St Martins/Tor
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 242mm,  Width: 166mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   628g
ISBN:   9781250258908
ISBN 10:   1250258901
Series:   The Dreambird Chronicles
Pages:   416
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

LUCINDA ROY is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She has been a guest on numerous TV and radio shows, including The CBS Evening News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, and NPR. Her work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, North American Review, the New York Times, the Guardian, USA Today, American Poetry Review, and many other publications. The Freedom Race is her speculative fiction debu

Reviews for The Freedom Race (#1 Dreambird Chronicles)

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 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 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 Small Change American magic-realism meets the outcome of the Second U.S. Civil War in a well-told, but brutally jolting, strangely prescient, and soul-haunting narrative. --L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of the Saga of Recluce series


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