Lucinda Roy

The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a 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 to 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.

The Freedom Race

Wailing the Dead to Sleep

Flying the Coop

Poetry collection by Lucinda Roy, Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech. Previous titles include Lady Moses, a novel and No Right to Remain Silent: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech.

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The Freedom Race Sneak Peek

The spirited daughter of an African writer and a British actress emerges from the shadow of poverty and her father's death to survive, until bigotry--her own as well as others'--leads her to make daring but destructive choices. A first novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.

Lady Moses

Two American half-sisters--one white, the other black--endure the violence and horror of an African civil war and return to the U.S., where they will reevaluate the lessons they have learned about race and identity in Africa.

A Novel

The Hotel Alleluia

Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thought-provoking sequel to The Freedom Race Dreams are promises your imagination makes to itself. In the disunited states, no person of color—especially not a girl whose body reimagines flight—is safe. A quest for Freedom has brought former Muleseed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Silapu to D.C., aka Dream City, the site of monuments and memorials—where, long ago, the most famous Dreamer of all time marched for the same cause. As Ji-ji struggles to come to terms with her shocking metamorphosis and her friends, Tiro and Afarra, battle formidable ghosts of their own, the former U.S. capital decides whose dreams it wants to invest in and whose dreams it will defer. The journeys the three friends take to liberate themselves and others will not simply defy the status quo, they will challenge the nature of reality itself. Book Two of the Dreambird Chronicles The Dreambird Chronicles The Freedom Race Flying the Coop At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The fifth winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize, selected by Lucille Clifton.

The Humming Birds

Chronicles one teacher's efforts to reach out and help the extremely troubled Seung-Hui Cho, which were hampered by the school's rules regarding student confidentiality, leading to the April 2007 massacre of 32 students at Virginia Tech. Reprint.

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