FLYING THE COOP:

Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thoughtprovoking sequel to The Freedom Race.

Dreams are promises your imagination makes to itself.
In the disunited states, no person of color-especially not a girl whose body reimagines flight-is safe. A quest for Freedom has brought former Muleseed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Silapu to D.C., aka Dream City, the site of monuments and memorials-where, long ago, the most famous Dreamer of all time marched for the same cause.
As Ji-ji struggles to come to terms with her shocking metamorphosis and her friends, Tiro and Afarra, battle formidable ghosts of their own, the former U.S. capital decides whose dreams it wants to invest in and whose dreams it will defer. The journeys the three friends take to liberate themselves and others will not simply defy the status quo, they will challenge the nature of reality itself.

Lucinda Roy is the author of the novels Lady Moses (HarperCollins, 1998) and The Hotel Alleluia (HarperCollins, 2000); the poetry collections Fabric (Willow Books, 2017), The Humming Birds (Eighth Mountain Press, 1995), and Wailing the Dead to Sleep (Bogle L'Ouverture Press, 1988); and the nonfiction title No Right to Remain Silent: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech (Crown, 2009), which Roy was awarded the Press Women's Association of Virginia 2009 Newsmaker of the Year in recognition. Roy serves as Alumni Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech, where she teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in numerous publications.