Redwood and Wildfire
Author: Andrea Hairston
ISBN: 9781250808707
Publisher: Tor Books
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 217mm x 147mm x 37mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
"An affirmation of the power of joy to transform the world, and reading it will make you sing like a bird while wishing for wings with which to fly." —Nisi Shawl At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. This "dreaming in public" becomes common culture and part of what transforms immigrants and "native" born into Americans. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal and determine the course of today and tomorrow. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan's power and talent are torment and joy. Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure.
ISBN: 9781250808707
Publisher: Tor Books
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 217mm x 147mm x 37mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
"An affirmation of the power of joy to transform the world, and reading it will make you sing like a bird while wishing for wings with which to fly." —Nisi Shawl At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. This "dreaming in public" becomes common culture and part of what transforms immigrants and "native" born into Americans. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal and determine the course of today and tomorrow. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan's power and talent are torment and joy. Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure.
