TY - STAND KW - African American author KW - Female author AU - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) AU - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) AU - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki AU - Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond] AB -

The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.

BT - Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction C5 -

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African American female author (b. 1966)

C7 - 2022 CY - New York DA - 01/2022 LA - eng N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.

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The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.

PB - Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates PP - New York PY - 2022 SN - 9781250833006 978-1636141053 SP - 275 EP - 294 T2 - Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction TI - "Ghost Ship" ER -