Soniah Kamal, award-winning author of the novels Unmarriageable: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Pakistanand An Isolated Incident You'll be thinking about the smart yet earnest Black Spark and his 'True Believers' long after you've turned the last page." Eskew gives the reader a beautifully created world where 'superhero' is a business and ethics grow murky. " Tales of the Astonishing Black Sparkis a scintillating journey into the distance between villains, heroes, and superheroes. Hoyt, author of This Book Is Not for Youand Then We Saw the Flames This is a rich and furious debut novel." -Daniel A. Buy it for the superheroes read on for the humor and the wisdom. Eskew's Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark, a funny, nerdy, and biting look at race and contemporary life, celebrity, and power. "You'd need lightning to combine the satire of Paul Beatty, the rueful humor of Lorrie Moore, the deranged superheroes of Charles Yu, and the twenty-first-century inheritance of Invisible Man-and then you'd have Charlie J.
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