Writing
Rising with the tide of history
Redefining what a ‘novel’ can do
The House of Abracadia
turning walls into bridges and publishing the difference
Ancestral Mission
Story As The Practice Of Freedom
Story as a medium has long been known for its healing and liberating qualities…
400 years ago Remi’s Ashante griot Ancestor resisted his kidnappers and enslavers, he became a Maroon and passed on that rebel spirit in his songs, spoken-word tales kept safe in each generation.
Abracadia writings are just the latest updated version of that spirit and those songs. At heart it is the same song, a song that lifts us all to greatness, a song as old as time. Its title? ‘What It Means To Be Human’.
Our writing mission starts here with Remi’s maiden voyage:
The Songtree: A Windrush Tale
By Remi D Maroon
This novel is the ital BOOM!
.45 calibre Maroon literary fiction you can dance to!
‘The Songtree: A Windrush Tale’
Where literary fine art meets escape-velocity action.
Where imagination meets realism like flames in oceans deep.
What’s it all about?
Underfed, underage, underworld underdog slips through this dimension into the mother of all conspiracies, where matching ends of past and future marry and the 21st century underground railroad is on the move.
A bit like a trip out of Phil K. Dick, ‘The Songtree: A Windrush Tale’ is a reality-shifting game-changing novel.
Based on a true story, ‘The Songtree’ is the ultimate tale for our time. It stands at the wild frontier of fiction, exposing the matrix of reality and turning it on its head.
What does it signify?
‘The Songtree’ isn't just a blasting declaration of literary revolution, it is proof of blessed victory!
Its social significance is in its overcoming of a destructive and outworn reality by overturning and transgressing the reality-fiction line. And in its crystallising the creative soul-revolutionary spirit of Jazz and Reggae, infusing it into every page to explore some positive and exciting new realities at hand for us now.
Stylistically, some have compared ‘The Songtree’ to ‘Mumbo-Jumbo’ and ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’, two books studiously avoided by the author in order to avoid any influence from them at all. Remi calls ‘The Songtree’ his reply to James Baldwin.
Remi wrote ‘The Songtree’ to be ‘once read, twice recommended’. So buy it. Read it. Hear it. Feel it. Dig it. And then if you feel it’s ‘budge-up-Ishmael-Reed’ or ‘scooch-over-Thomas-Pynchon’ or even ‘shift-along-James- Baldwin’ it’s for you to holler and pass it on. No corporate machines here. We are the change we need.