![]() ![]() But we also meet robot slaves and a man who’s supposedly the last son of God (as the first line of the book tells us “God is from Cross River, everyone knows that”). We meet college professors, musicians, and underground railroad re-enactors. They dart between realism, fantasy, and even science fiction. These new stories are at once deep, thoughtful, disturbing, quirky, and laced with dark, dry humor. The author’s debut story collection, Insurrections, was also set in Cross River and was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. This shared legacy unites Scott’s disparate characters. This revolt, called the Great Insurrection, happened generations before these short stories take place, but it is the foundation the town is built on. Cross River was founded by slaves who freed themselves in a successful (and unfortunately fictional) slave uprising. The stories span decades, but they’re all set in the fictional community of Cross River, Maryland. ![]() Rion Amilcar Scott’s second book, The World Doesn’t Require You, is a collection of linked short stories. ![]()
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