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A graphic novel adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed short story “Red Dirt Witch”In this graphic novel adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s short story “Red Dirt Witch”—which was featured in the 2018 short story collection How Long ’Til Black Future Month?—we are introduced to Emma, a single Black mother of three in a backwater Alabama town in segregated 1940s America. In this alternative universe, magic and faeries exist, and Emma must use her Afrocentric cultural “magicks” against a supernatural force that wants to enslave her daughter, Pauline. Jemisin infuses this world with the magic, complexity, and power of oral Black folklore that have become trademarks of her work in trilogies like The Broken Earth and Inheritance.Red Dirt Witch has been expertly adapted into the graphic novel format by writer Kinitra Brooks and illustrators Shomari Harrington and Ashley A. Woods. They have translated Jemisin’s powerful prose into a stunning visual story of family and sacrifice. A heartbreaking reminder of the many injustices that Black mothers still have to endure in our country to ensure a better future for their children, this story will resonate with readers everywhere.

An NAACP Image Award Nominee, Queenie: Godmother of Harlem is a historical graphic novel inspired by the life of legendary mobster Stephanie St. Clair, the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in the 1930s. “It’s original, entertaining, riveting, moving. A beautiful piece of art, a must-read!” —Whoopi GoldbergThis powerful story tackles themes of colonization, corruption, police violence, and racial identity, but above all, Queenie celebrates the genius of a woman forgotten by history.Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Stephanie St. Clair left the island in 1912 and headed for the United States, eager to make a new life for herself. In New York she found success, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem’s mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community.A racketeer and a bootlegger, St. Clair dedicated her wealth and compassion to the struggling masses of Harlem, giving loans and paying debts to those around her. But with Prohibition ending, and under threat by Italian mobsters seeking to take control of her operation, she launched a merciless war to save her territory and her skin.In an America still paralyzedby depression and segregation, St. Clair understood that her image was a tool she could use to establish her power and wield as a weapon against her opponents.Authors Elizabeth Colomba and Aurelie Levy’s meticulous details—in both story and art—bring St. Clair’s story to life in a tense narrative, against a sometimes bloody backdrop of jazz and voodoo.