Black Cloud Rising

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Based on historical events, Black Cloud Rising aims to unearth the lost stories of the Black soldiers that fought in the Civil War and present these characters as they were: fully rounded and resoundingly human. A story adapted from Black Cloud Rising appeared in the New Yorker in August 2020, entitled The Sand Banks, 1861. David read the story for the New Yorker's Fiction Podcast and was interviewed by Cressida Leyshon for the New Yorker's "This Week in Fiction". We are making early galleys now and plan to send Black Cloud Rising out widely. We will be seeking blurbs from Colson Whitehead, James McBride, Charles Frazier, Kevin Young, Zadie Smith, David Zucchino, Claudia Rankine, Nathasha Trethewey, Margaret Wrinkle, Edward P. Jones, Geraldine Brooks and more. Black Cloud Rising is a sort of origin story for David's first book, the nonfiction Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers (a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2001) so we have a good list of supportive reviewers and media outlets to target. Rescue Men, a documentary film David wrote and co-produced on the same subject, premiered on Magic Johnson's Aspire network in 2012. David's work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Village Voice, Callaloo, Newsday, and elsewhere. A professor at the University of Illinois and former Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, he has received awards from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Texas Institute of Letters. He is also a 2021-2022 Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. Grove sold Canadian rights to HarperCollins Canada in a nice deal amid interest from several publishers. Black Cloud Rising will be one of their lead titles of the season and they will approach Esi Edugyan, one of their authors, for a blurb.