Harriet Tubman Live in Concert, Bob the Drag Queen
Harriet Tubman Live in Concert, Bob the Drag Queen
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

Author: Bob the Drag Queen

Narrator: Bob the Drag Queen

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/25/2025

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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Featuring two new songs written for the audiobook and performed by Bob the Drag Queen!

“Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert is magnificent! I want to send to the folks who do the Nobel Prize for Literature. I don’t know them, but I want them to read this!” —Whoopi Goldberg

“It’s a knockout.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“An emotional exploration of religion, external and internalized homophobia, the pressure of progressing Black liberation, and the importance of revisiting the past.” —New York magazine

From RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, Traitors contestant, and host of HBO’s We’re Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop.

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.

Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way. Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her.

She calls upon Darnell, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps into the studio with Harriet, only that they have a short period of time to write a legendary album she can take on the road. Over the course of their time together, they not only create music 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.

Original, evocative, and historic, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert is a landmark achievement that will burrow deep into our hearts (and ears).

About Bob the Drag Queen

Bob the Drag Queen is a television host, actor, activist, and the season eight winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Find Bob at BobTheDragQueen.com, on TikTok and Instagram @BobTheDragQueen.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on April 23, 2025

this debut novel is a speculative story involving a world where historical figures are back living amongst us. and as the title very much indicates, harriet tubman is now in present day new york, where this story starts off with her recruiting a once very successful hip hop producer to help her make......more

Goodreads review by Mara on February 23, 2025

3.5 stars: This was delightfully voice-driven and very engaging throughout. I love that you could feel the author's passion to share the [purposefully] forgotten stories of resilience and ingenuity from enslaved Americans - that was where the book's energy was and it almost felt like interconnected......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on March 25, 2025

I’ve been a huge fan of Bob the Drag Queen for years, so when I found out he wrote a book—Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert—I IMMEDIATELY added it to my TBR. When I saw it listed on NetGalley, I got super excited and requested it, thinking there was no way I’d actually get approved—but lo and behold,......more

Goodreads review by Allen on January 14, 2025

A creative and unique imagined world wherein historical figures are back and living in the present day. Harriet Tubman is one of those figures and is ready to tell her story. She enlists the help of gay (but not out) music producer Darnell to help write songs about her life and experience. Harriet t......more

Goodreads review by jame✨ on May 08, 2025

Bob the Drag Queen > God Wanted a chance to write some good music I mean some hood music I’m talking ’bout I wish a motherfucker would music Liberate my people through the swamps and the woods music Never would have made it if I didn’t know I could music......more


Quotes

"Imagine a world in which Harriet Tubman and four of her compatriots enter the present time to tell their own stories on the hip-hop stage. Then imagine this same story expresses empathy for being queer in the US and in the hip-hop music scene. Listeners may know author/narrator Bob The Drag Queen from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” or from HBO’s “We’re Here,” and he does not disappoint here. With poignancy and deep understanding, Bob brings their own experiences to play in both the writing and the narrating of this important audiobook. Listen to Bob, listen to Harriet, and let them wake you up from complacency."