Archangels of Funk

Name: Archangels of Funk
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrea Hairston
ISBN: 9781705072547

Author: Andrea Hairston

Narrator: January LaVoy

Unabridged: 15 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/07/2024

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Urban

Synopsis

Run from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present.

The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run.

Disrupters and the nostalgia militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs work with a community of farmers, Motor Fairies, and Wheel-Wizards
to provide housing, health care and education for flood refugees.

As Cinnamon confronts threats from the Darknet Lords and the nostalgia militia, she must determine how best to honor her elders and her history while building a future for herself and her charges.

It’s not going to be easy.

“Andrea Hairston creates original, layered, complex worlds that are a treat to explore, but what I love most is the people she creates for them. Archangels of Funk is brimming with characters who face adversity with love, hope, art, stories, history, and their bonds
with each other. It's a celebration of radiant creativity as a bulwark against despair.”?Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries

About Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of Redwood and Wildfire, winner of the 2011 Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award, and Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick and Otherwise Awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. In her spare time, she is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. She has received the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award for outstanding contributions to the criticism of the fantastic. She bikes at night year-round, meeting bears, and the occasional shooting star.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on December 04, 2023

The core of the novel is the Next World Festival -- a welcoming celebration of dance, storytelling, music, and more -- that invites people to remember their pasts and choose their future. Cinnamon Jones promised her family she'd continue the tradition after they'd gone, but environmental disaster, a......more

Goodreads review by Lois on August 20, 2024

This audiobook was made available for me to listen to and review by Andrea Hairston, RB Media, and NetGalley. This is a fun and unique novel, almost like a podcast in a way. This starts off with an ad for the Next World Festival. The Next World Festival is a celebration of life; focusing on dance, st......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on May 04, 2024

Different and I don’t think it’s going to be for everyone but it’ll work very well for the right readers. It’s very slow paced and takes its time tell the story of just a few days. It describes the life of those living in a slow apocalypse well and the tone of the writing suits the characters and se......more

Goodreads review by Geonn on May 12, 2024

I loved Will Do Magic for Small Change. It was instantly one of my favorite books of the year, and it made this an auto-buy. But... I just don't think this one was for me. The acknowledgements reveal this was originally a short story, then another, then tied together as a play, then turned into a no......more

Goodreads review by Lady Olenna on January 01, 2025

I tried. I really did. I got up to page 100 but the story/writing didn’t get any better or easier to decipher. It was like reading something in a second language that my brain kept trying to translate and then piece together to come up with something that resembles a coherent storyline. It was so ve......more