Bibliograph

She would be king, Wayetu Moore

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Label

She would be king, Wayetu Moore

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

She would be king

Oclc number

1075552292

Responsibility statement

Wayetu Moore

Summary

The dramatic story of Liberia's early years reimagined through three unforgettable characters. 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. -- back cover

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