Bibliograph

She would be king, a novel, Wayétu Moore

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Label

She would be king, a novel, Wayétu Moore

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

She would be king

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1019928794

Responsibility statement

Wayétu Moore

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Three extraordinary people use their unusual powers to protect the fledgling state of LiberiaGbessa, 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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