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The Freedom Race

Lucinda Roy

Science Fiction Dystopia

The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope.

In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial “Muleseeds” are bred.

Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Lottermule knows there is only one way fto escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner.

Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home.

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July 13, 2021
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Lucinda Roy

Novelist, poet, and memoirist Lucinda Roy is the author of the forthcoming speculative novel The Freedom Race (Macmillan/Tor) and three collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Fabric: Poems. Her two previous novels, both from HarperCollins, were Lady Moses, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and The Hotel Alleluia. She also authored the memoir No Right to Remain Silent: What We’ve Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech (Random House). Among her awards are the Eighth Mountain Prize for Poetry, and the Baxter Hathaway Prize for her long slave narrative poem “Needlework,” and a state-wide faculty recognition…