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Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thought-provoking sequel to The Freedom RaceDreams 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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Novelist, poet, and memoirist Lucinda Roy is the author of the speculative novel
The Freedom Race and three collections of poetry, including
Fabric: Poems. Her early novels are
Lady Moses, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and
The Hotel Alleluia. She also authored the memoir
No Right to Remain Silent: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech. Among her awards are the Eighth Mountain Prize for Poetry, and the Baxter Hathaway Prize for her long slave narrative poem "Needlework," and a state-wide faculty recognition award. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Richmond. An Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, she teaches fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in the graduate and undergraduate Creative Writing Program. Professor Roy has been a guest on numerous TV and radio shows, including
The CBS Evening News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS's
Sunday Morning, Oprah, and NPR. Her work has appeared in the
Chronicle of Higher Education,
North American Review, the
New York Times, the
Guardian,
USA Today, American Poetry Review, and many other publications. She delivers keynotes and presentations around the country on creative writing, diversity, campus safety, and higher education.
