At age nineteen
he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer—a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises
reeling from a wave of urban uprisings
The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets
You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel Material:Paperback At age nineteenFrom the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernn Corts entered the city of Tenochtitlan today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Corts was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and