Publication

2018 - Graywolf Press

Language

English

Word Count

73,500 words, Guess

Page Count

294 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101555978177
  • ISBN-139781555978174
  • OCLC Control Number1019928794
  • Better World Books9781555978174
  • Open LibraryOL26609837M

Classifications

  • LCCPS3613.O5687S54 2018
  • LCCPS3613.O5686 S44 2018

Description

Three extraordinary people use their unusual powers to protect the fledgling state of Liberia. 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

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  • She Would Be KingGraywolf Press2018-01-01
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