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East Bend: The Library Book Club

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 10/15/2019
Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Time: 1:00 PM
Description:
 Feed your mind at this monthly lunch-hour book club. All are welcome to attend. Free and open to the public.

Discuss "She Would Be King" by Wayetu Moore.

About the book:
A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and historya dazzling retelling of Liberias formation Wayétu Moores powerful debut novel, She Would Be King , reimagines the dramatic story of Liberias early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. 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, the 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. Moores intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind, who embodies an ancient wisdom. zIf she was not a woman,y the wind says of Gbessa, zshe would be king.y In this vibrant story of the African diaspora, Moore, a talented storyteller and a daring writer, illuminates with radiant and exacting prose the tumultuous roots of a country inextricably bound to the United States. She Would Be King is a novel of profound depth set against a vast canvas and a transcendent debut from a major new author.
Library: East Bend Public Library
Location: Meeting Room
Contact: Chandra vanEijnsbergen
Contact Number: 541-330-3764
Presenter: Chandra vanEijnsbergen