“Vivid, imaginative, and often brutal prose.” - Jake Casella Brookins, Chicago Review of Books And there’s a really interesting author note at the end.” She is such good short story writer - she’s also an excellent novelist - but you really feel the power of her short fiction in this collection. The stories are not easy and I think they’re not supposed to be. You’re gonna go some places here and you’re not gonna be able to look away. From the opening story right on through it is putting you on notice. Johnson maps the people in these and other, stranger landscapes. Consider what you would give up for a better life in a place that you have never been. Meet the humans who serve a coterie of vampires in Hawai’i, explore the taxonomy of anger with Black Union soldiers and the woman who travels with them during the American Civil War. In Reconstruction, award-winning writer and musician Johnson delineates the lives of those trodden underfoot by the powerful, and how they rise up.
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