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She Would Be King

✍ Scribed by Moore, Wayétu

Book ID
110223363
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
161 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781555978686

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✦ Synopsis

A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history --a dazzling retelling of Liberia's formation

Wayétu Moore's powerful debut novel, She Would Be King , reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia's early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them.

Moore's intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in...

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