Half-Resurrection Blues, the first installment in Daniel José Older’s Bone Street Rumba fantasy series, was released earlier this month and it has already been optioned.
Anika Noni Rose, a Tony Award winning actress, has picked up the Film/TV option to the series. She has optioned the series through Roaring Virgin Productions, her production company. A synopsis of Half-Resurrection Blues can be found below.
Synopsis:
Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead’s most unusual agents—an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that’s missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind—until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death.
One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He’s summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they’re spreading through the city like a plague. They’ve already taken out some of NYCOD’s finest, leaving Carlos desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the Underworld—which would destroy the balance between the living and the dead.
But in uncovering this man’s identity, Carlos confronts the truth of his own life—and death.…
