The Selah Branch - A Novel of Time Travel and Race in America
Ted Neill
Publisher: Tenebray Press
Summary
WINNER - NEW YORK BIG BOOK AWARD 2017WINNER - BEST MULTICULTURAL NOVEL - INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2018FINALIST - BEST MULTICULTURAL NOVEL - NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE 2018FINALIST - BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL - CYGNUS AWARD 2018DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE - SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL - INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2018 As a black college student in the rural West Virginia town of Selah Station, Kenia Dezy already feels out of place. But when an unexplained phenomenon starts transporting her back to pre-civil rights 1953, she finds herself woven into a tapestry of racial triumphs and tragedies.She begins to unravel secrets that powerful men would rather keep hidden, even if it means massacring an entire town through an industrial disaster. At the intersection of race, gender, class, and privilege, Kenia must navigate a community and a country wresting with its past,present, and future identities.