4.5 

Ancestors

By adrienne maree brown
Ancestors by adrienne maree brown digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

Community ideals and magic clash in this follow-up to Grievers and Maroons by adrienne maree brown.

Ancestors is the powerful conclusion to adrienne maree brown's Grievers trilogy—a story of how life blooms amid tragedy and hate. In the wake of a mysterious pandemic known as Syndrome H-8, the survivors of a ravaged and isolated Detroit are building a future inside the network of deserted skyscrapers that define the city’s skyline. Dune’s magic keeps a lush green wall encircling the community, and while some settle inside its safety, others grow desperate to get out, fueling the tension between shelter and confinement. As Dune’s power blossoms and her connection to the spirits of the departed deepens, she must learn how to balance the needs of her people, both living and dead.

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4.5
“Maybe I was one of the only people happy to be quarantined? I enjoyed seeing the Earth rejoiced that we were all slowing down. I got hopeful that, even through all the death we were seeing, the world was being changed. Actually, politically, spiritually, etc… this book takes me right back there, right back to the bubble and I will accept the quick ending as a charge to continue the work set out in it. Great work again, amb!”
“nothing will ever compare to this trilogy”

About adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her collaborations, and her podcasts. Informed by twenty-five years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E. Butler scholarship, and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured emergent strategy, pleasure activism, radical imagination, and transformative justice as ideas and practices for change. Some of her books include Emergent Strategy, the New York Times–bestseller Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, Loving Corrections, and her two prior novellas in this series, Grievers and Maroons.

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