I Can’t Wait For…Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun

Can’t-Wait Wednesdayis a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. 

This week my Can’t-Wait-For is Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun!

Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun
Representation: Black MC, Black and Indigenous cast, nonbinary/genderqueer secondary character
Published on: 3rd May 2022
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Begin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black and indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States—comes true.

In 1793, as revolutionaries in the West Indies take up arms, James Hemings has little interest in joining the fight for liberté—talented and favored, he is careful to protect his relative comforts as Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved chef. But when he meets Denmark Vesey, James is immediately smitten. The formidable first mate persuades James to board his ship, on its way to the revolt in St. Domingue. There and on the mainland they join forces with a diverse cast of characters, including a gender nonconforming prophetess, a formerly enslaved jockey, and a Muskogee horse trader. The resulting adventure masterfully mixes real historical figures and events with a riotous retelling of a possible history in which James must decide whether to return to his constrained but composed former life, or join the coalition of Black revolutionaries and Muskogee resistance to fight the American slavers and settlers.

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I am so here for this.

I discovered this via Margaret Killjoy’s Country of Ghosts – when checking out the publisher, I found that AK Press is ‘a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books and other media to expand minds and change worlds.’ That is something I can absolutely get behind, and while browsing their catalogue I found Begin the World Over – which I am officially head-over-heels in love with, despite it not being released until next May!

I mean – come on! What part of that description does not sound incredible?! I love alternate history, but I rarely find premises that interest me; this one? I LOVE THIS ONE. This is exactly the kind of alternate history I crave, thank you!!! I can’t WAIT to get my mitts on it!

Immediately pre-ordered and scribbled into my book-releases calendar – and now I’ll just pine for it until May…

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