Gabino Iglesias Reviews Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout is a wildly imaginative, superbly written narrative about friendship, magic, and fighting racism that occupies a strange interstitial space between historical fiction, fantasy, and body horror. It is also a smart reimagining of history that pushes current racial tensions to the forefront and forces readers to remember that bigotry should be fought in all its incarnations. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation helped the Ku Klux Klan swell its ranks and stoked the fire of racism across the country. Now the Klan isn’t just a group of angry white folk obsessed with...
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