What if your mom was abducted? What if the people who held her hostage wanted to erase her mind? Seventeen year old XJ Patterson is genetically enhanced. So is her revolutionary mother, Dorothy. CAGE, the Coalition to Assimilate Genetically Enhanced Persons, abducts Dorothy because she crossed the wrong person.
Saunders' novel fuses the narrative style of fantasy fiction with a pre-colonial, alternate Africa.
Young Nathan Walker performs feats with his mind that normal humans can't fathom, feats that drain his mind and body. His ability is instrumental in keeping his father, an early twentieth century civil rights activist, from harm. Tragedy strikes when Nathan's fear of his own power causes him to turn away from it. In the wake of that tragedy, Nathan focuses his vast and frightening capabilities on revenge. He will not stop until vengeance is his, even if he must sacrifice himself to obtain it.
And you just showed the flaw in your thinking and that self-hate is peaking out. You assume that that's all black people go around thinking about constantly. Or that most black people grew up in an urban context to even think that way. On some hood and baby mama shyt. You're also assuming that blacks are inferior to the great white man cause you haven't sought out and personally read some of the great shyt they have to say and you flat out said it that "we aren't on their level yet". What kind of bullshyt is that? How do you know that some of the writers behind some of the greatest works of what you would consider white entertainment weren't black?
"Oh look, we only write about having a side chick, the white man is looking at us and shaking his head"
