FREEDOM RACE

The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy's explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope.

In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial “Muleseeds” are bred.
Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Lottermule knows there is only one way fto escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner.
Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home.

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 (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.