![]() ![]() ![]() Norman can fade from sight and June Dey has an incomprehensible strength and impenetrable skin.Īlthough we first meet Gbessa as a young woman, Moore quickly rewinds and tells us the story of Gbessa’s birth, the reason why her people believe her to be cursed, and ultimately why Gbessa’s life is a lonely and misunderstood one. This supernatural element connects the three main characters of this novel as each character holds a particular gift. ![]() But as we read on, we quickly learn that, “ there were no other Vail girls like Gbessa,” for when she was born, she was cursed with eternal life. 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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