The Lesson

I found this book by a recommendation of an author I follow on Twitter. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It's a first novel by an African-American native of the US Virgin Islands. His previous works were short fiction pieces, a few of which have been included in anthologies, including Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. It has strong prose without being pretentious. It has a fairly large cast of characters, much like a disaster movie of the '70s - well not that many, but the plot follows quite a few characters to tell the story. It's short, but packs a big punch with the horrors of colonialism and slavery as themes. It wasn't nominated for anything, but received a lot of good press, and I expect to see very good things coming from this author in the future. I think he's one to follow.

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