Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen (2025) 230 pages
If you reimagine history's timeline and allow for a bit of jiggering around, perhaps you'll enjoy this short novel about Darnell, a struggling music producer who finds himself face to face with the real Harriet Tubman and a handful of her associates called the Freemans. Harriet wants to reach out to people today and to help them understand history, and to bring them to freedom. In spite of slavery not existing as it had in the past, it's clear that many people are not truly free, including Darnell, who's been afraid to live openly with as the gay man he is. Darnell's task is to help Harriet and the Freemans produce a record and to put on a concert.
I do not know enough about Harriet Tubman's actual personality, but her depiction seems realistic. I enjoyed the imaginary interactions with this talented group of people.
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