![]() ![]() ![]() In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generations-like the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet deaths.Īmong its residents-wildly spanning decades, perspectives, and species-are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God’s last son Tyrone, a ruthless PhD candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga and Jim, an all-too-obedient robot who serves his Master. ![]() The World Doesn’t Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of religion, violence, and love-all told with sly humor and a dash of magical realism.Įstablished by the leaders of the country’s only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, NPR, Buzzfeed and Entropyīest Short Story Collections of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature ![]()
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