![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the students weren't familiar with her work, but quickly became infatuated with how delicately she writes about black women and the idea that she sold a speculative realism novel as a person of color in 2018. Moore skillfully reconsiders the idealism of the early African-American settlers through their interactions with the indigenous peoples and braids together intimate story lines centered around universal themes: falling in love, defying familial expectations and the difficulties of doing the right thing."Įarly this semester, I presented Moore's writing to some of my creative writing students at the University of Baltimore. "She Would Be King" has been well received, garnering praise from numerous publications, including the New York Times, which wrote, "Ms. Moore's characters share different strands of the transatlantic slave trade experience - one has been exiled, one was raised on a plantation in Virginia and another is the child of a white British colonizer - and she unites them all through magical realism. The novel is an adventurous reading experience that spans continents, time and genres. Author Wayétu Moore recently exploded on the literary scene with her debut novel " She Would Be King," which boldly reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia's creation through the eyes of three characters with special powers. ![]()
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