The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. By Shannon Chakraborty. 2023. Harper Voyager.
An unusually tall, middle-aged, Muslim pirate captain with a bad knee and a gold tooth has her retirement interrupted when a late crewman’s wife asks her to rescue her kidnapped granddaughter.
The Black God’s Drums. By P. Djèlí Clark. 2018. Tor.
Fifteen years after an armistice between
