A Song Below Water

This urban fantasy does what all good speculative fiction should: uses the lens of fantasy to examine our reality. In creating a world where mythical/fantastical beings are real - and not just Euro-centric ones there are elokos of Central African myth - Morrow naturally discusses Otherness, racism, respectability politics, police brutality, victim-blaming, microaggressions and more. At first glance, and to a white reader, this could seem like a lot to put into a teen book. But Morrow is a Black woman writing about Black women and how they face these issues all the time. She does it so naturally and with such emotion, this book gives readers a lot to think about. Highly recommend to teens and adult who like fantasy because they care about our real world.