The search for hope and community in death and desolation.

The pandemic of Syndrome H-8 continues to ravage the city of Detroit and everyone in Dune’s life. InMaroons, she must learn what community and connection mean in the lonely wake of a fatal virus. Emerging from grief to follow the subtle path of small pleasures through an abandoned urban landscape, she begins finding other unlikely survivors with little in common but the will to live. This second installment of theGrieverstrilogy is a tale of survival, of moving beyond seemingly insurmountable devastation toward, if not hope itself, then the road to hope.

adrienne maree brownis a writer rooted in Detroit who now lives in Durham, NC. She is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. Maroons is her second novel. Her previous books includeOctavia’s Brood,Emergent Strategy,Pleasure Activism, andWe Will Not Cancel Us. Her visionary fiction has appeared inThe Funambulist,Harvard Design Review, andDark Mountain.

• Publisher:AK Press (February 14, 2023)
• Language:English
• Paperback:216 pages
• ISBN-10:1849354804
• ISBN-13:9781849354806
• Item Weight:1.11 pounds