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BUY THE AWARD-WINNING BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS

(For the People Press, 2016)

In this award-winning epic tale of love, loss and the cost of liberation, 17-year-old Addis escapes from her enslaver, the first president of the young country Amerika. On the run for her life, with unlikely friends and a world of enemies, Addis becomes the most wanted person alive and a global symbol of hope for enslaved people longing for freedom.

Written in an 18^th Century Black Diasporic vernacular, BOOK OF ADDIS reaches back in time to explore the intergenerational impact of oppression and plots a daring path into the future. BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS is the first novel in the 3-part literary fiction series BOOK OF ADDIS.

PRAISE FOR BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS

WINNER: 2018 ACCRA INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL INDEPENDENT WRITER’S AWARD

WINNER: 2017 PHILLIS WHEATLEY AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION

WINNER: 2017 BLACK CAUCUS OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION LITERARY AWARD

“[R]aw, breathtaking, and inspiring”

–BCALA LITERARY AWARDS JURY

“This is a brilliant piece of work.”

— Susan Cheever, best-selling/award-winning author, Drinking in America: Our Secret History

CRADLED EMBERS is the first in the BOOK OF ADDIS series.

By Brooke C. Obie

BUY ‘BOOK OF ADDIS’ TODAY!

A For the People Press Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-692-72106-3| Price: $16.99

BROOKE C. OBIE, bio

Brooke C. Obie, JD, MFA, is an award-winning author, journalist and screenwriter named to The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans of 2019. Her debut novel, Book of Addis: Cradled Embers won the 2018 Accra International Book Festival Independent Writer’s Award, the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for First Fiction and the 2017 and the 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association for self-published fiction. In 2020, her TV pilot screenplay adaptation of Book of Addis became a quarterfinalist for the Screencraft TV Pilot Screenplay Competition. Her thesis for The New School’s MFA in Fiction program, which became Book of Addis, was a finalist for the Fulbright Fellowship. Brooke’s attended a writing workshop with Columbia University in Paris, France and the Callaloo Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters Creative Writing Workshop at Oxford University where she began work on the sequel, Book of Addis: Burning Plains. She continued that work as the 2019 Summer Writer in Residence with La Maison Baldwin, in James Baldwin’s last hometown, St. Paul de Vence. Brooke lives happily in Los Angeles.

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