![]() ![]() He's the most courageous writer I know and this collection is an excellent example and significant achievement. 'Rion Amilcar Scott doesn't hold back or tiptoe around issues about race. 'Flat-out unputdownable' LAURA VAN DEN BERG The truth told in a completely new way' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ![]() The book makes you laugh even as it stabs. Now I'm shuddering, gasping in wonder, reading stories over and over, and doing just about anything so that I never leave' MARLON JAMES 'I wandered into Cross River, not knowing a damn thing. ![]() Not to forget the water women who lure men to their watery graves and the screecher birds who cry out for sacrificial flesh.Ĭontemporary and essential, 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 race, violence, and love - all told with sly humour and a dash of magical realism. student channelling the insurrections of his forebears through a childhood game Jim, a Robot Personal Helper desperate to escape the master who enslaves him and James-my-man, who travels the path of the Underground Railroad year after year. Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, its residents thump out a beat that echoes its violent founding.Īmong them - spanning decades, perspectives, and species - are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God's last son Tyrone, a ruthless Ph.D. ![]()
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