I felt its impact from the very start: I had barely started it and already had problems falling asleep because I kept thinking about what was happening to the protagonist and where the story might go. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment when I realised The Freedom Maze was something special. It’s been sitting in my Kindle ever since but then last week, the book was nominated for a NebulaAndre Norton Award, and I just knew the time had come to read it. Jemisin raved about the book in her Smugglivus Post and I bought it as soon as I read her post.
On her arrival she makes her way, bedraggled and tanned, to what will one day be her grandmother’s house, where she is at once mistaken for a slave. When Sophie, bored and lonely, makes an impulsive wish inspired by her reading, hoping for a fantasy adventure of her own, she slips one hundred years into the past, to the year 1860.
But the house has a maze Sophie can’t resist exploring once she finds it has a secretive and playful inhabitant. In 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending summer at her grandmother’s old house in the Bayou.
Set against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then just before the outbreak of the Civil War, The Freedom Maze explores both political and personal liberation, and how the two intertwine.
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