The world doesn't require you: stories

✍ Scribed by Scott, Rion Amilcar

• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 357 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1631495399

✦ Synopsis

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The World Doesn't Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of religion, violence, and love --all told with sly humor and a dash of magical realism.

Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generations--like the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet deaths.

Among its residents--wildly spanning decades, perspectives, and species--are David Sherman, a struggling...

✦ Subjects

Geographical myths -- Fiction