The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. Reid lives in Philadelphia.Ībout the Book "Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. Her short stories have been featured in Ploughshares, December, New South, and Lumina. About The Author Kiley Reid earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship and taught undergraduate creative writing workshops with a focus on race and class.
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There she meets the Skylark, a powerful mage with a mysterious past, who reluctantly takes Laura on as an apprentice.Īs they’re sent off on their first mission together into the heart of the country’s oldest and most mysterious Blight, they discover the work of mages not encountered since the darkest period in America’s past, when Black mages were killed for their power-work that could threaten Laura’s and the Skylark’s lives, and everything they’ve worked for. With nowhere else to turn, Laura applies for a job with the Bureau of the Arcane’s Conservation Corps, a branch of the US government dedicated to repairing the Dynamism so that Mechomancy can thrive. A talented young queer mage from Pennsylvania, Laura hopped a portal to New York City on her seventeenth birthday with hopes of earning her mage’s license and becoming something more than a rootworker.īut four months later, she’s got little to show for it other than an empty pocket and broken dreams. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology-otherwise known as Mechomancy-not the traditional mystical arts. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided-between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbinding historical fantasy set at the crossroads of race and power in America. In King Edward VIII's day, the implications of marrying a divorcée were even more intense than they would have been for Prince Harry. Even so, the redheaded prince observed that royal men felt an obligation to marry women who were seen as suitable for palace life. "For so many people in the family, especially obviously the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit the mold as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with," Harry explained in the documentary series "Harry & Meghan" (via Insider). Interestingly, by the time Harry began dating, the pressures to maintain the royal bloodline had substantially subsided. In his memoir, he revealed: "The idea of an arranged marriage was altogether repugnant to me moreover, the idea of such a union as a means of maintaining the purity of the royal line no longer offered so wide a range of choice as in the past." Edward, however, was against these practices - at least on a personal level. During Edward's era, it was common for families to arrange unions to preserve their bloodlines. This statement was particularly rebellious for the standards of the time. |