The Selah Branch

2017 Winner of the New York Big Book Award; 2018 Winner of Independent Press Award for Best Multicultural Novel and Distinguished Favorite for Science Fiction Novel; 2018 Finalist for Best Multicultural Novel, National Indie Excellence Awards. 2018 Finalist Best Sci-Fi Novel Cygnus Awards

As a black college student in the rural West Virginia town of Selah Station, Kenia Dezy already feels out of place. But when an unexplained phenomenon starts transporting her back to pre-civil rights 1953, she finds herself woven into a tapestry of racial triumphs and tragedies. She begins to unravel secrets that powerful men would rather keep hidden, even if it means massacring an entire town through an industrial disaster. At the intersection of race, gender, class, and privilege, Kenia must navigate a community and a country wresting with its past, present, and future...