Archangels of Funk

“The old world has died and the new world has yet to be born; in that suspended space Hairston suggests that we make the new by performing it. The result is a novel about art and play as visionary act — riotous, hilarious, joyous. We save ourselves, as our heroine says at the start; and she shows how that can happen.” —Kim Stanley Robinson

“Archangels of Funk is a tour de force of Afrofunkilicious Black Girl Magic. Like all great speculative fiction, it's about our world as well as this lush imaginary one. Don't miss the majesty of Andrea Hairston in this new call for resistance.” —Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory

“Andrea Hairston creates original, layered, complex worlds that are a treat to explore, but what I love most is the people she creates for them. Archangels of Funk is brimming with characters who face adversity with love, hope, art, stories, history, and their bonds with each other. It's a celebration of radiant creativity as a bulwark against despair.” —Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries

“The music of Hairston’s prose and her characters’ approach to conflict set the novel apart...This cross between Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono deserves a place in every library.” —Library Journal, starred review

“A post-apocalyptic groove of a novel that reads like magic and feels like a song. Hairston’s prose pulls the reader in with pop-culture references and wild metaphors...Recommended for fans of Nalo Hopkinson and Nnedi Okorafor.” —Booklist