![]() ![]() ![]() The plan involves psychic time travel, both for Alcide and for Argenis, a brilliant artist who has had the misfortune to be born into an era when anyone with money, contacts and tech can become a famous artist without any drawing skill. She has foreseen that the seas can be saved through the intervention of an avatar of the orisha, Olokun, who, if you remember my review of David Mogo: Godhunter, is genderfluid. His quest leads him to become a maid to Esther Escudero, President Bona’s spiritual advisor. We first encounter Acilde, a young trans man who will do whatever is necessary to get hold of a shot of Rainbow Bright, a legendary new drug that performs gender reassignment without the need for surgery. Our story begins in 2027 at which point the Caribbean is an ecological disaster zone. ![]() Given that this is a big anemone, it can be dangerous to humans. Being an anemone, it hunts by use of stinging cells (nematocysts) on its tentacles. The tentacle(s) of the title belong to Condylactis gigantea, the Giant Caribbean Sea Anemone. Tentacle is the English translation of that book, and her first work to become available in English. Her novel, La mucama de Omicunlé, won the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers in 2017, the first Spanish-language book to do so. She hails from the Dominican Republic and in addition to being one of the Caribbean’s foremost writers she’s also a singer-songwriter with her own band, Los Mysterios. Rita Indiana is the pen name of Rita Indiana Hernández Sánchez. ![]()
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