“A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination.Clark’s combination of historical and political reimagining is cathartic, exhilarating and fresh.” - The New York TimesĪ 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nominee Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror It joins other books that wrestle with learned perceptions of truth and draw attention to missing voices. At less than 200 pages, this wild ride could easily slip anywhere into your reading life. I obsessively searched the internet for pieces of history and culture referenced in the book so I could learn more.
Clark deftly captures the dialect of the 1920s South that is passed between his witty characters and sprinkles the story with bits of spooky folklore and Gullah traditions. Djèlí Clark infuses his characters with playfulness and humor, which keeps the adventure fun so that they are fully-realized human beings.
The book includes discussions of love and hate, ancestral anger and pain. This is certainly serious subject matter. Their best hope is to put a stop to a ritual screening of of Birth of a Nation, and event that could suck hundreds of lives down the funnel of hatred and rain down hell upon the world. A small group of black women and some witchy, mystical aunties fight to take down the bloodthirsty monsters of the Klan and the demons that wear their skin. In alternate 1920s America, demonic aliens possess and inhabit the bodies of KKK members. Leave behind bone-white demons who don't remember they was men." "Ask me, it's plain evil them Klans let in, eating them up until they hollow inside.
Magic demon-slaying swords! Monstrous hell beasts! Mystical dimensions! Witchcraft! Haints!
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