THE BIRD TRIBE
Coming July 7
“And so it was that enslaved Flying Africans translated themselves into the thing they desired most—ascension. When the soles of their blistered feet rose from the earth, the kidnapped from the Cradle were the happiest, most implausible people who ever lived.”
Lucinda Roy's Official Author Website
What if the legend of Flying Africans wasn’t a myth enslaved people told themselves? What if the Bird tribe was real?
Other Books in the Series
"She did what enslaved people must do if they are to survive and alchemized grief into fuel."
-- Man Cryday in THE BIRD TRIBE
Interview on Apple Podcast
The World of THE BIRD TRIBE
“Folks all over the world got whacked by the Long Warming, droughts an’ hurricanes, the water wars, nuclear accidents, a half-assed attempt at a nuclear war by a rogue government . . . An’ here in these Disunited States, pandemics, another uncivil war, secession, Trifurcation, science outlawed in the Territories. You name it, people got walloped by it. But climate was the scariest. Difficult to act reasonable when the seasons don’t.” --Norville Einar, the Viking
The Disunited States in
THE DREAMBIRD CHRONICLES
Coming Soon:--Lucinda talks about THE BIRD TRIBE and reads an excerpt from the novel
Ji-ji's Map of the Disunited States
“Can’t keep people captive without two things: weapons and words. The steaders ... gotta aggrandize themselves and terrorize what they fear. And what they fear is us. So they ritualize oppression with penal trees and elevation prohibitions, pyres and confessionals. The humiliation is designed to mortify. It’s engineered to be deeply, irrevocably personal. That’s the whole point.” -- Dream Master Amadeus "I'm-a-God" Nelson
