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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

by Bob the Drag Queen

2025 233 pages
Fiction Book Club Audiobook Adult Fantasy LGBT Historical Fiction Historical Magical Realism Queer

About this book

<b>From <i>RuPaul’s Drag Race</i></b><b> <i> </i> </b><b>winner and host of</b><b> HBO’s </b><b> <i>We’re Here</i> </b><b> comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and music. </b><b></b><br /><br />In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say.<br /> <br />Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way—by following in the footsteps of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s <i>Hamilton</i>. Harriet wants to put on a show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her.<br /> <br />She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed by a rival at the BET Awards. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps into the studio with Harriet, only that they have one week to write a Broadway caliber musical she can take on the road. Over the course of their time together, they not only mount a show that will take the country by storm, but confront the horrors of both their pasts, and learn to find a way to a better future.<br /> <br />Original, evocative, and historic, <i>Harriet Live in Concert</i> is a landmark achievement that will burrow deep into our hearts (and ears).