He grabbed his duffel bag and Eddie's journal, it somehow glowed green but only he noticed it, and he never read it despite knowing that it contained fables he heard in his youth. Tristan's grief counselor said it would good for him to get a change of scenery.
His mother came in and told him they're ready for him to go to their grandparents' farm in Alabama for a month.
The night before, he lost his first boxing match, his parents and paternal grandparents tried to cheer him up but were also disappointed, his father and grandfather were professional boxers. It was supposed to be for an oral presentation they were going to do but school ended early due to Eddie's death. Two weeks ago he lost his best friend, Eddie, in a bus accident and his mother gave him his journal. Tristan Strong was punching a punching bag in his room in Chicago. On April 15th, Mbaliia revealed three items relevant to Tristan, a journal, a boxing glove, and sweet peaches. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves? DevelopmentĪccording to Kwame Mbaliia, Tristan Strong deals with grief and loss in this book, both personal and cultural. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky.
Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American gods John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan chases after it–is that a doll?–and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s journal. Tristan is dreading the month he’s going to spend on his grandparents’ farm in Alabama, where he’s being sent to heal from the tragedy. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. He must race to find Anansi, the Weaver, and repair the rip before the iron monsters wreaking havoc in the Midpass consume their world and ours. Pitched as an MG American Gods, the book stars a seventh-grade boy who accidentally creates a hole into the Midpass, a world where ancient African gods clash with gods of African-American legend.
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