Description
In a near-future Caribbean choked by acid rain, epidemics, and political cruelty, Acilde—once trapped in sex work—finds a doorway into the impossible when she becomes a maid to Omicunlé, a religious advisor bound to Yemayá, the ocean’s Yoruba power. With the help of a magical anemone and a bargain that turns the body into a site of both risk and possibility, Acilde travels through time, inhabiting different avatars as she races to avert a coming environmental catastrophe. Blending prophecy, ritual, and speculative invention, the novel interrogates anti-Haitian racism, the afterlife of empire, and the ways queer lives and Caribbean art are consumed, controlled, and commodified. Written in Rita Indiana’s sharp, genre-bending style—translated into English by Achy Obejas—this brief, ferocious book turns climate disaster into a political reckoning and asks who gets to survive, who gets to be seen, and what it costs to change the tide.
Available Editions
paperback
And Other Stories
Published Jan 15, 2019
160 pages
ISBN: 9781911508342
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Tentacle by Rita Indiana.