![]() ![]() The author, Rebecca Roanhorse, identifies her ethnic heritage as Ohkay Owineh and African American. Race to the Sun features a protagonist who is Navajo, or Diné. But Riordan believed that a story centered around a Native protagonist, inspired by Indigenous mythologies, needed to come from a Native writer. Piper, who was half-Cherokee, was part of an ensemble that populated Heroes of Olympus. Piper was my way of saying, ‘Absolutely! I see you. They wanted to see themselves reflected at Camp Half-Blood, because they simply never saw themselves in popular kids’ books. “They asked me repeatedly whether I could add a Native hero to Percy Jackson’s world. In his introduction for Race to the Sun, Rick Riordan shares that the character of Piper McLean from his Heroes of Olympus series was “inspired by conversations I had with Native kids” during his visits to schools. Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse is a recent addition to Rick Riordan Presents, an imprint that features stories about characters from world mythologies, written by authors who are inspired by the mythology and the folklore of their heritage. ![]()
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