She Would Be King - Waytu Moore
Category: Novel
Narrator: Waytu Moore
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Fantasy
Sarah Jessica Parker and the American Library Association Book Club Central Official Selection, A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history - a dazzling retelling of Liberias formation, Waytu Moores powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberias 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., Moores intermingling of h
