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WATERMELON SUMMERS

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Watermelon Summers is a Southern Afrofuturist autoethnography that captures a boyhood shaped by myth, memory, and spiritual inheritance. Told through the field journal of Coltrane Johnson the Third, it turns family ritual, cousin‑coded chaos, and Southern surrealism into a sacred record of Black life. MR. TOMONOSHi writes as a mythic participant, revealing how laughter, labor, and love become theological practice. Watermelon Summers is a cultural artifact built from ceremony, memory, and mythic observation.

Watermelon Summers is a Southern Afrofuturist autoethnography that captures a boyhood shaped by myth, memory, and spiritual inheritance. Told through the field journal of Coltrane Johnson the Third, it turns family ritual, cousin‑coded chaos, and Southern surrealism into a sacred record of Black life. MR. TOMONOSHi writes as a mythic participant, revealing how laughter, labor, and love become theological practice. Watermelon Summers is a cultural artifact built from ceremony, memory, and mythic observation.

WATERMELON

SUMMERS

WATERMELON SUMMERS is a Southern Afrofuturist autoethnography that documents a boyhood shaped by myth, memory, and spiritual inheritance. Told through the field journal of Coltrane Johnson the Third, it captures a summer where family ritual, cousin‑coded chaos, and Southern surrealism converge into a sacred record of Black life. MR. TOMONOSHi writes as a mythic participant, treating everyday moments as ceremonial data and revealing how laughter, labor, and love become theological practice. Watermelon Summers is a cultural artifact of Southern Black life, built from ceremony, memory, and mythic observation. It is a record of how spirit moves through the sacred logic of everyday ritual.

Publisher: ‎ TOMONOSHi LLC

  • Publication date: ‎ November 7, 2025

  • Language: ‎ English

  • Print length: ‎ 828 pages

  • ISBN-10: ‎ 1948760118

  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1948760119

  • Item Weight: ‎ 3.79 pounds

  • Dimensions: ‎ 7.5 x 1.87 x 9.25 inches