Praise for The Freedom Race "Gut-wrenching read. This powerful, riveting novel provides a glimpse into a nightmarish future that's all too similar to our past."-- Buzzfeed "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. 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 "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 "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 "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 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.