If Arika is to liberate her people, she must unearth her fierce heart and discover the true meaning of freedom: finding the courage to live - or die - without fear. Hosea Khan spews dangerous words of treason: What does peace matter if innocent lives are lost to maintain it?Īs Arika is exposed to new beliefs, she realizes that the laws she has dedicated herself to uphold are the root of her people's misery. But everything changes when a new student arrives. After ten gruelling years of training, she is on the threshold of taking her place of privilege far from the fields. Today, debut author Agnes Gomillion, whose acclaimed novel The Record Keepera tale of a Black woman awakening to the struggle for racial justice is a post-apocalyptic future Americais out this week, joins us to discuss how, in the process of trying to sell her book, she discovered what she’d actually written with a little help from. Everyone must obey the law - in every way - or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race.Īlthough Arika Cobane is a member of the race whose backbreaking labor provides food for the remnants of humanity, she is destined to become a member of the Kongo elite. The Record Keeper is a visceral and thrilling near-future dystopia examining past and present race relations.Īfter World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce.
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