About the event

Started in 2014 by Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell, SOULar Powered Reading Group (SPRG), is a community that primarily consists of queer Black readers and readers of varying colours, genders, and sexualities from around the word that celebrate Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, Afromystism, and science fiction featuring Black people written by Black people.

Conversations are as casual as meeting a dear friend for coffee, as intellectual as your PHd thesis, and as intentional as your Buddha instructor in deep meditation (says Isis Asare, a non-coffee drinking, non-PHd holding, non-Buddhist 😉.)

Join the book club via zoom ready to discuss the book, Black diaspora culture, and the intersection of scifi and politics.

About Search Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Children of Blood and Bone was an instant success last year.

The young adult fantasy novel by then-24-year-old author Tomi Adeyemi has so far spent 89 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. It made countless best books lists, and it was optioned for a movie by Disney. It spoke to people.

"I always pitched it as Black Panther with magic," Adeyemi says. "It's this epic young adult fantasy about a girl fighting to bring magic back to her people."

And now there's a sequel: Children of Virtue and Vengeance. The heroine, Zélie, has succeeded in her quest to bring magic back to her people, the maji, and the land of Orïsha. But the nobility and the military now have powerful magic, too. And civil war looms.

For Zélie and her ally Amari — a runaway princess who has joined the rebellion, so to speak — the question becomes: Now what? And how will their personal traumas play out?

"I'm really mean to my characters," Adeyemi says. "And so they have a lot to both deal with personally, and in terms of like: OK, well, who am I? What am I wrestling with? What do I want? Is what I want actually what you want? Are we actually still on the same team in this? It's about kind of how complicated things is — especially with people that you love."