Reconstruction: Stories by Johnson, Alaya Dawn

In Reconstruction, award-winning writer and musician Johnson delineates the lives of those trodden underfoot by the powerful, and how they rise up. Meet the humans who serve a coterie of vampires in Hawai'i, explore the taxonomy of anger with Black Union soldiers and the woman who travels with them during the American Civil War. Consider what you would give up for a better life in a place that you have never been. Johnson maps the people in these and other, stranger landscapes.

Author: Alaya Dawn Johnson
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 01/12/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781618731777

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2020
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2020 pg. 58
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 51

About the Author
Alaya Dawn Johnson (@alayadj) is the author of seven novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel for adults is Trouble the Saints. Her young adult novel The Summer Prince was longlisted for the National Book Award and Love Is the Drug won the Norton Award. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Mexico City where she received a master's degree with honors in Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, for her thesis on pre-Columbian fermented food and its role in the religious-agricultural calendar.