Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The ..., Kwame Mbalia
Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The ..., Kwame Mbalia
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Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky

Author: Kwame Mbalia

Narrator: Amir Abdullah

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2019


Synopsis

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.

Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from the tragedy. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it--is that a doll?--and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature's hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?

About The Author

Kwame Mbalia is the New York Times best-selling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor award. The book was also named to best-of-the-year lists compiled by Publishers Weekly, the Chicago Public Library, and the New York Times. The second book in the trilogy is Tristan Strong Destroys the World. Kwame lives with his wife and children in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is currently working on the third book about Tristan. Follow him on Twitter @KSekouM.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on September 02, 2019

Don’t get me wrong. Greek myths are great! But you can’t swing a gorgon’s head in any bookstore without hitting at least a dozen Greek-myth-inspired books. Try finding great adventures based on Western African gods and heroes like Nyame or Anansi. Try finding stories about modern kids who encounter......more

Goodreads review by The Artisan Geek on July 23, 2020

------------------VIDEO REVIEW------------------ 4/10/19 FINISHED! What a story, I laughed and I cried, but I mainly laughed! So fun to read a book about African gods!! :D My review will be up next week!! ;) 2/10/19 A HUGE thank you to Disney Hyperion for gifting me a copy of this book! #Blessed 30/3/19......more

Goodreads review by J (Midnight Book Blog) on September 07, 2020

Somehow, this book had me laughing, crying, and screaming “WHOA, plot twist” at my family. I very much underestimated this book. I think because it’s technically a middle-grade read, I was expecting it to be slow, easy, and predictable. Let me tell you, it was none of the above. I’m not even sure w......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 21, 2020

I received a copy of this book for free as part of an Instagram tour (Storygram Tours specifically) I did to promote the book. So first off I just want to say that it is incredibly refreshing to read a book about mythology that isn’t Greek. I know very little about African/African American mythology......more

Goodreads review by Jade on May 22, 2021

4.14 on CAWPILE......more