“Hope lies with you,” he said to the Chavistas. He said current events don’t give him “immediate optimism,” but he has hope. He praised youth who have spoken out against gun violence and stood up for young unauthorized immigrants known as “dreamers.”

“When you’re just sort of getting recognized, you tell old war stories, and it’s a mutual admiration society, and you don’t get as much done.” “It gives people the opportunity to talk about what’s possible,” Cohen said. “It took Cesar and his skills and the people he attracted to put farm workers on the map.”īeing honored by the youth organization meant more to Cohen than other awards he’s received for his work with the labor movement, he said, because talking with students was productive. “Congress didn’t do it as boldly but it had the same effect,” Cohen said. But as war looms, she must align with the right side-before the kingdom and its magic are completely destroyed.Farm workers and domestic workers were left out of federal labor laws of the 1930s, Cohen said, which he likened to blatantly racist laws from 1920s South Africa that prohibited black workers from organizing. Torn between the love she has for her people and her growing loyalty to the banished, Elli struggles to understand the true role she was meant to play. As she finds her footing in this new world, Elli uncovers devastating new information about the Kupari magic, those who wield it, and the prophecy that foretold her destiny. It’s nowhere to be found.ĭisgraced, Elli flees to the outlands, the home of banished criminals-some who would love to see the temple burn with all its priests inside.

Elli is destined to be the most powerful Valtia to ever rule.īut when the queen dies defending the kingdom from invading warriors, the magic doesn’t enter Elli. Since then, Elli has lived in the temple, surrounded by luxury and tutored by priests, as she prepares for the day when the Valtia perishes and the magic finds a new home in her. Sixteen-year-old Elli was a small child when the Elders of Kupari chose her to succeed the Valtia, the queen who wields infinitely powerful ice and fire magic. The elders chose Elli to be queen, but they chose wrong in this beautifully crafted novel in the tradition of Kristin Cashore and Victoria Aveyard.

The impostor queen by sarah fine