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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

by Bob the Drag Queen

History reimagined through music

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Awards & Recognition

  • Bestseller

    The New York Times bestseller

  • Editorial selection

    Pride Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025

    Included among Pride's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025.

  • Critical praise

    Publishers Weekly starred review

    Publishers Weekly gives the book a starred review and calls it a knockout.

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History reimagined through music

Harriet Tubman returns in a story that brings historical memory into a contemporary creative project: she wants to make a hip-hop album and live show about her life, with help from Darnell, a producer whose career changed after he was outed on television. Four people she led to freedom join her in telling the story. The studio collaboration connects the work of shaping music with the characters’ encounters with painful histories and the possibility of a different future. The premise also brings together questions of freedom, love, salvation, and the pressures surrounding Black liberation and homophobia. The publisher notes that the audiobook includes two new songs written for and performed by Bob the Drag Queen.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in imaginative fiction that reworks historical figures and events.
  • Readers drawn to stories combining hip-hop, music-making, and questions of personal history.
  • Readers interested in LGBTQ+ themes and Black history.

Themes

Historical memory and reinterpretationFreedom and Black liberationHomophobia and identityMusic and collaborationLove and salvation

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Book overview

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride - Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle - Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub - Biggest Books of March by Book Riot - Most Anticipated Books of March by Goodreads

Featuring two new songs written for the audiobook and performed by Bob the Drag Queen!

"Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert is magnificent! I want to send to the folks who do the Nobel Prize for Literature. I don't know them, but I want them to read this!" --Whoopi Goldberg

"It's a knockout." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An emotional exploration of religion, external and internalized homophobia, the pressure of progressing Black liberation, and the importance of revisiting the past." --New York magazine

From RuPaul's Drag Race winner, Traitors contestant, and host of HBO's We're Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop.

In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say.

Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way. Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her.

She calls upon Darnell, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps into the studio with Harriet, only that they have a short period of time to write a legendary album she can take on the road. Over the course of their time together, they not only create music that will take the country by storm, but confront the horrors of both their pasts, and learn to find a way to a better future.

Original, evocative, and historic, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert is a landmark achievement that will burrow deep into our hearts (and ears).
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