num_pages: 368
description: Sixteen tales by bestselling and award-winning authors that explore the Black experience through fantasy science fiction and magic.Evoking Beyoncs Lemonade for a teen audience these authors who are truly Octavia Butlers heirs have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that centers Black women and gender nonconforming individuals. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal strength and resistance this collection contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters in which you cannot help but see yourself reflected. Witches and scientists sisters and lovers priestesses and rebels: the heroines of A Phoenix First Must Burn shine brightly. You will never forget them.Authors include Elizabeth Acevedo Amerie Dhonielle Clayton Jalissa Corrie Somaiya Daud Charlotte Davis Alaya Dawn Johnson Justina Ireland Danny Lore L.L. McKinney Danielle Paige Rebecca Roanhorse Karen Strong Ashley Woodfolk and Ibi Zoboi.
language: English
title: A Phoenix First Must Burn
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers