Grievers (Black Dawn #1)

adrienne maree brown’s story “The River,” in Octavia’s Brood, has been reprinted numerous time. It’s the one that is mentioned in almost every review. There is a big audience for adrienne’s fiction out there. Like "The River," Grievers takes place in near-future Detroit. It’s tone lies somewhere between Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Samuel Delaney’s Dhalgren.

• An exploration of grief (something the city of Detroit knows well), this book is perfect mix of adventure, emotional depth, and implicit politcs.

We’ve chosen adrienne to launch our new, genre-fiction series Black Dawn, which we expect will get it off to a great start. The series is overseen, acquired, and edited by Sanina Clark and has its own design and publicity team.