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Ginga

By Daniel José Older
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Publisher Description

From the world of Daniel José Older's immensely popular Bone Street Rumba series comes a Tor.com Original short story, "Ginga."

Between her obscenely muscular new capoeira teacher, her crush going off with a new girl in their favorite park, and trigonometry homework, Kia figures she has enough going on without some creepy ghost causing car crashes and hit-and-runs in her neighborhood. Carlos Delacruz, the half-dead half-resurrected soulcatcher for the New York Council of the Dead, would love to keep her out of it, but things don't usually go the way he intends.

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“A short story that manages to showcase friendships, with satirical and realistic social commentary. Half-dead ghost hunter Carlos Delacruz has been sent by the New York Council of the Dead to investigate and capture the entity that is behind a string of 'accidents' in and around Von King Park. Kia, an intelligent teenager finds her ginga when she needs it most and explains to her friend Carlos why she is and will be profiled differently if caught with a weapon, even if it is for protection. Older does a great job in highlighting in so short a story the racial construct in society, all while weaving an interesting ghost story.”
“Rep: Afro Latina mc if this is what daniel josé older's short stories are like, i can't wait to read his full length novels”

About Daniel José Older

Daniel José Older is the author of Half-Resurrection Blues (book one of the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series from Penguin's Roc Books) and the upcoming Young Adult novel Shadowshaper (Scholastic's Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015). Publishers Weekly hailed him as a "rising star of the genre" after the publication of his debut ghost noir collection, Salsa Nocturna. He co-edited the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History and guest edited the music issue of Crossed Genres. His short stories and essays have appeared in the Guardian, Tor.com, Salon, BuzzFeed, the New Haven Review, PANK, Apex and Strange Horizons and the anthologies Subversion and Mothership: Tales Of Afrofuturism And Beyond. Daniel's band Ghost Star gigs regularly around New York and he facilitates workshops on storytelling from an anti-oppressive power analysis.

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