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The Fire in Our Throats
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 12 2024
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Fire in Our Throats is a speculative fiction, verse novel that weaves together the stories of twenty Black women from Cleveland, Ohio who, through everyday living, fight to stay alive in defiance of an evil peculiarity developed by The People Downtown: roots that wrap themselves around throats. Dry, rotting roots whose nourishment is sustained through feeding on the turbulence of dreams deferred, poverty, failing health, overworking, and unemployment. And these roots do thrive until one night, under the cool of indigo skies, Charmaine Height gathers the women to declare that this wickedness will have them no more. But will this daughter of the dawn remember the resistance of her mother, and lead the women of Cleveland on a revolution to take what is owed?
The Black woman, who has endured the lowest levels of living, is elevated in this work: her vernacular needs no correction; her thoughts no taming. The fire in her throat-wild and free.
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