![]() ![]() This is sophisticated world-building that requires an attentive reader. Into that toxicity, Ireland adds a nuanced blend of mythic traditions from Norse to African. Industry and science-as a tool of business and powered by White mages-join forces with the Klan as the government turns a blind eye. In this fantastical version of America, Ireland brings into stark (and sometimes literally horrifying) focus the racial injustices that are the poisonous legacy of slavery and its aftermath, but she does this through the separate and not equal treatment of “colored” mages and their magical traditions. ![]() Ireland’s website tagline does an excellent job of introducing her fiction: “Let’s change the system via the lens of compelling fiction.” Rust in the Root, set in 1937 New York and Ohio, builds an alternate United States with widespread magic of various brilliantly imaginative kinds. Author Justina Ireland, photo 2018 by Avery Jensen Wiki ![]()
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