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A long forgotten Beat poet brought back to life in utterly fantastical fashion. In beautifully vivid journal entries, Black poet Mardou Fox chronicles her 1950s and '60s experiences with the Beat Generation--and her adventures in the mysterious, otherworldly realm ""over the fence."" Characters based on star Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac fight alongside Mardou or battle against her as she challenges racism and sexism to win happiness, freedom, and respect for her work. Are the answers she's seeking shrouded in the mists of magic? Inspired by the true story of Alene Lee, whose crucial role is often left out of Beat Generation lore.

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“Step back, Kerouac! I loved this fabulist reckoning with the legacy of the Beats from the perspective of an overlooked member of their circle: a singular black writer who is no one’s muse. Shawl’s generous gifts bring ‘Marlene Todd,’ a.k.a. ‘Mardou Fox,’  to complex vibrancy in a brilliant act of literary comeuppance.”  —Alaya Dawn Johnson, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Trouble the Saints

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Nisi Shawl's first novel, Everfair, wasa finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award. In 2009 their Aqueduct storycollection Filter House received the Otherwise Award. They havepublished three other short fiction collections--Something More andMore (Aqueduct, 2010), A Primer to Nisi Shawl (Dark Moon Books,2017), and Talk Like a Man (PM Press, 2019). Shawl is, with CynthiaWard, the author of Writing the Other: A Practical Approach(Aqueduct, 2005), and has edited numerous anthologies, including theWorld Fantasy Award-winning New Suns: Speculative Fiction by Peopleof Color (Solaris, 2019), Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism,African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler with Rebecca Holden(Aqueduct, 2013), and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delanywith Bill Campbell (Rosarium, 2015).

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