Format:
Book
Author:
Moore, Wayetu, author.
Title:
She would be king / Wayetu Moore.
Publisher, Date:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Description:
294 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
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, 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. -- Adapted from jacket.
Subjects:
Ability -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Outcasts -- Fiction.
Liberia -- History -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 298).
LCCN:
2018934484
ISBN:
1555978177
9781555978174
Other Number:
1019928794
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
384071
Call Number:
FIC MOORE 2018
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2