Riot baby

By Tochi Onyebuchi

Subjects: FICTION / African American, Racism, FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Families, FICTION / Coming of Age, United States, Fiction, FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, American literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Revolutions, Nigeria, Fiction, dystopian, Science fiction (form), Riots

Description: Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for the crime of being a young black man in America, Ella—through visits both mundane and supernatural—tries to show him the way to a revolution that could burn it all down.