If you are having trouble finding the link to add a new thread, try this. Im a sucker for carnival stories, and Veronica Henrys Bacchanal is the first one Ive read thats centered on a Black protagonist. Please avoid all-caps, especially in thread topics, as it is considered SHOUTING. They are able to edit and improve the Goodreads catalog, and have made it one of the better catalogs online.Īctivities include combining editions, fixing book and author typos, adding book covers and discussing policies. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who have applied for and received librarian status on Goodreads. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Rolling across a consuming dust bowl landscape, Eliza may have found her destiny.A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Only then can Eliza save her friends, find her family, and fight the sway of a primordial demon preying upon the human world. And she’s met her match in Eliza, who’s only beginning to understand the purpose of her own burgeoning powers. But the Bacchanal is no ordinary carnival. Her work has debuted at 1 on multiple Amazon bestseller charts, was chosen as an editors’ pick for Best African American Fantasy, and shortlisted for the Manly Wade Wellman Award. Among fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger than herself, Eliza finds a new home. Henry is the author of Bacchanal, The Quarter Storm, and The Foreign Exchange in the Mambo Reina series. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza’s ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Writer Veronica Henry pulls on a mix of African folklore, Black histories, and carnival culture to weave a story of mesmerizing, bizarre, and dangerous magic.

To a talent prospector, she’s a crowd-drawing oddity. Great discussion with Veronica G Henry on the Mambo Reina series.

Henry’s eerie debut unveils the haunting world behind the scenes of a 1930s carnival. Bacchanal, The Quarter Storm, The Foreign Exchange. Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. Her work has debuted at 1 on multiple Amazon. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Henry is the author of Bacchanal, The Quarter Storm, and The Foreign Exchange in the Mambo Reina series.

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South.

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