See, Juba is a compendium of the truest details. I swear, I searched for Juba, a character in the eponymously named short story, in Wikipedia. And I looked, even knowing the whole thing was invented whole cloth – cause Rion writes it so well that invention becomes fact. Off the first read, me, a PG County native (that’s Prince George’s County, Maryland for y’all folks that don’t know), was so fucked up that I started looking for Cross River on the map, beefing again with high school teachers that I figured had, once again, kept part of my history from me. But good writing, like good whisky, ages well. Months after it won the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. So, I read Insurrections late, more than a year after it was released. I was afraid that the book wouldn’t live up to the hype of the person. As hilariously funny and sincere in person as he is on the various social media spots where writers hang. I slept on his first book the collection of stories appropriately named Insurrections. He creates the kind of imaginative landscapes that seem so real you wonder why you haven’t been paying attention to the world in the way that he has.
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