The Black God's Drums - P. Djeli Clark

 

Yay, I think I've found a new author to read.

 

This is a sparkling little novella with an alternative history late nineteenth century independent New Orleans that mixes swashbuckling Haitian airship captains and old African Gods with crazy science and an engaging, fourteen-years-old goddess-possessed black street child who calls herself Creeper and is full of fire.