Nominee · Hugo Awards 2021
Riot Baby
2020 novella by Tochi Onyebuchi
Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for the crime of being a young black man in America, Ella—through visits both mundane and supernatural—tries to show him the way to a revolution that could burn it all down.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- fiction
- Pages
- 89
- ISBN
- 9781094006291
- Subjects
- American literature, Fiction, dystopian, Fiction, science fiction, general, Racism, Fiction, Families, Revolutions, Riots
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