Redwood and Wildfire
core novel 2011 Cinnamon Jones
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (422 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781933500522 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Around 1900, American entertainment is changing: minstrel shows give way to vaudeville, and vaudeville to moving pictures, with crowds of different backgrounds gathering in dark theaters to watch. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurers. They travel from Georgia to Chicago, trying to bring the world they imagine to life on stage, on screen and in everyday life. For them, hoodoo is a power that heals and holds a community together. The system around them is stacked against it, so their talent brings both joy and pain. The book is presented as a novel of what might have been.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cinnamon Jones
- Series: Redwood and Wildfire core; position 1 of 1 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Andrea Hairston
Awards (verified)
- Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree Jr. Award), 2011: won
Notes
- Reissued by Tordotcom in 2022.
- From the series record (Redwood and Wildfire): A standalone alternate-history fantasy about two performers and hoodoo conjurers, c. 1900.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Internal chronology, within Cinnamon Jones: position 1 of 3: next Will Do Magic for Small Change (2016)
Sources
- Worlds Without End: Redwood and Wildfire
- Wikipedia: Redwood and Wildfire
- Harry Hartog (publisher blurb)
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