While on her lonesome walk away from her home, she encounters a poisonous snake and is bit. We first meet Gbessa, newly exiled from her village, Lai, in West Africa. In this ambitious novel, Moore artfully and lovingly uses her protagonists to explore exile, belonging, resilience, relationships, loss, and freedom amidst the larger context of the African Diaspora and culminating in the reimagined founding of Liberia. The lives of these three characters knit together narratives of the Caribbean, North America, and Africa. She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore’s debut novel published by Graywolf Press, tells the stories of three main characters: Gbessa, a wild and passionate suspected witch Norman Aragon, a loner descended from the English and Maroons and June Dey, a fierce runaway slave.
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