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A Nice, Provocative Silence: An Interview with the Author of Cahokia Jazz
An interview with the author of Cahokia Jazz.
2016’s Golden Hill follows a secret history in which abolitionists attempt a mass liberation of American slaves, and in 2021’s Light Perpetual, Spufford explores a timeline in which a horrific World War II Blitz bombing never occurred. In Spufford’s novel, the ancient Native American city of Cahokia, famous for its giant earthen mounds, never vanished in 1400, instead thriving due to his slight shift in the timeline of smallpox immunity. For example, the genre includes not just The Man in the High Castle, but also Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, whose excellent noir plot was popular and delightful, but also a very thoughtful exploration of the Holocaust.
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