The Free People'S Village

Usa Today Bestsellerofficial Indienext SelectionIncisive And Insightful. Texas Monthlyfrom Environmental Journalist And Founder Of The #Transrightsreadathon Sim Kern, Comes The Eattherich Climate Fiction You Won'T Want To Put Down:In An Alternate 2020 Timeline, Al Gore Won The 2000 Election And Declared A War On Climate Change Rather Than A War On Terror. For Twenty Years, Democrats Have Controlled All Three Branches Of Government, Enacting Carboncutting Schemes That Never Made It To A Vote In Our World. Green Infrastructure Projects Have Transformed U.S. Cities Into Lush Paradises (For The Wealthy, White Neighborhoods, At Least), And The Bureau Of Carbon Regulation Levies Carbon Taxes On Every Financial Transaction.English Teacher By Day, Maddie Ryan Spends Her Nights And Weekends As The Rhythm Guitarist Of Bunny Bloodlust, A Queer Punk Band Living In A Warehouseturnedvenue Called The Lab In Houstons Eighth Ward. When Maddie Learns That The Eighth Ward Is To Be Sacrificed For A New Electromagnetic Hyperway Out To The Wealthy, White Suburbs, She Joins Save The Eighth, A Blackled Organizing Movement Fighting For The Neighborhood. At First, Shes Only Focused On Keeping Her Band Together And Getting Closer To Red, Their Reckless And Enigmatic Lead Guitarist. But Working With Save The Eighth Forces Maddie To Reckon With The Harm She Has Already Done To The Neighborhoodboth As A Resident Of The Gentrifying Lab And As A White Teacher In A Predominantly Black School.When Police Respond To Save The Eighth Protests With Violence, The Lab Becomes The Epicenter Of The Free Peoples Villagean Occupation That Promises To Be The Birthplace Of An Anticapitalist Revolution. As The Movement Spreads Across The U.S., Maddie Dreams Of A Queer, Liberated Future With Red. But The Village Is Beset On All Sidesby Infighting, Police Brutality, Corporateowned Media, And Rising Ecofascism. Maddies Found Family Is Increasingly At Risk From State Violence, And She Must Decide If Shes Willing To Sacrifice Everything In Pursuit Of Justice.Sim Kerns Masterpiece Burns With Righteous Fury. This Book Doesnt Pull Punches Instead Of Hopelessness, It Sliced Straight Through Frustration, Fatalism, And Ennui And Made Me Want To Fight Back.Shana Hausman, All She Wrote Booksachingly Real, Bitterly Funny, And Deeply Moving, The Free Peoples Village Is A Commentary, Both Compassionate And Cutting, On The Woke White Activists Journey And, Above All, A Fullthroated Ode To Resistance And The Found Family That Fuels It.Megan Bell, Southern Bookseller Reviewthe Free Peoples Village Tackles Many Social And Environmental Issues At Once Without Feeling Heavy Or Prescriptive, Focusing On Personal Stories Amid The Larger Ones It Tells About Capitalism, Climate, And Activism. Its Commentary Never Comes Off As Rote Or Tedious, Bolstered By Humor And Humanity. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya For AutostraddleFull Of Furious Kindness, Radical Community, Passionate Politics, And Authentic Friendships, The Free People'S Village Is A Sharplywritten Paean To Hope, Set In A Vivid, Brilliantly Imagined Future That Alternately Filled Me With Loathing And Yearning. From The Carefully Crafted Timelines To The Intensely Real Characters, This Was A Story That Yanked Me Into Its World And Didn'T Let Me Surface For Hours. You Live Because You Still Can, And You Organize Because You Still Can, And You Fight Because You Still Can.Premee Mohamed, Nebula Awardwinning Author Of And What Can We Offer You Tonighta Thoughtprovoking, Exciting Ride. The Free People'S Village Is A Mesmerizing Portrait Of Revolutions The Internal Ones That Call Us To Find And Fight For The Best Versions Of Ourselves; The External That Consume, Invigorate, And Demand As They Explore Paths To Justice. Grounded In An Imaginative Landscape And Rounded Out By An Inclusive, Complex Cast, This Novel Masterfully Explores Identity, Morality, And The Choices We Make As Vehicles That Hold Radical Power In The Quest For Liberation. More Than A Love Letter To Houston, Its Bayous, And People Forgotten And Remembered, Sim Kern'S World Sings With Possibility, Hope, And Joy That Will Leave You Laughingand Crying Long After The Last Bomb Has Dropped.Ehigbor Okosun, Author Of Forged By BloodBeautiful, Brilliant, And Unflinching, The Free People'S Village Will Both Inspire You And Devour You...In The Best Possible Way.Nicky Drayden, Author Of Escaping Exodus And The Prey Of Gods