The Black God's Drums

P. Djèlí Clark Raúl García Campos David G. Vaquero First published 2018

About this book

"Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart-- Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants her divine powers. And Oya has her own priorities..." -- Page [4] of cover.

Subjects

  • african american teenagers
  • airships
  • fiction
  • fiction, science fiction, general
  • pirates
  • weapons