#BlackGirlMagic and Intersectional Feminism in Debut Slave Revolution Novel

[Guest Brooke Obie]

You may be interested in my debut novel, BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS. Addis is a 17-year-old Igbo girl enslaved in Amerika who starts a revolution. It's chock full of #BlackGirlMagic, Black love, revolution, intersectional feminism and the beauty of Blackness across the Diaspora. t's been praised by award-winning/best-selling author Susan Cheever as "brilliant" and is mentioned in the July issue of Ebony with Common on the cover.

 

 

(For the People Press, 2016)

#JOINTHEREVOLUTION JUNE 30, 2016

When 17-year-old enslaved girl Addis accidentally kills her enslaver, the first   president of the young country Amerika, she unwittingly becomes the face of the greatest conflict in the nation’s short history. On the run for her life, with unlikely friends and a world of enemies, Addis becomes the most wanted person alive and a global symbol of hope for enslaved people longing for freedom.

Written in an 18th Century Black Diasporic vernacular, BOOK OF ADDIS reaches back in time to explore the intergenerational impact of oppression and plots a daring path into the future. An epic tale of love, loss, and the cost of liberation, BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS is the first novel in the 3-part literary fiction series BOOK OF ADDIS.

"The revolution is in our hands."

--BROOKE C. OBIE 

PRAISE FOR BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS

“This is a brilliant piece of work.”

— Susan Cheever, best-selling/award-winning author, Drinking in America: Our Secret History

CRADLED EMBERS is the first in the BOOK OF ADDIS series.

By Brooke C. Obie

ON SALE NOW: bit.ly/BuyBookofAddis

A For the People Press Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-692-72106-3| Price: $16.99

 

Brooke C. Obie, JD, MFA, is an award-winning writer. Her work has appeared in Ebony, The Los Angeles Review of Books, MarieClaire.com and more. Her thesis for The New School’s MFA in Fiction program, which became Book of Addis, was a finalist for the Fulbright Fellowship. She’s attended a writing workshop with Columbia University in Paris, France and the Callaloo Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters Creative Writing Workshop at Oxford University where she began work on the sequel, Book of Addis: Burning Plains. Brooke lives happily in Harlem.