>It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army.
>Long unavailable in the US, published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.
Now with an intro by Mumia!
A brilliant book. The action and characterization make it hard to stop turning the pages, and the prose is so beautiful it verges on poetry. I love this book too much to judge it reasonably, but if you are planning to buy any work of fiction this year, I suggest this one.
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