![]() Gbessa, misunderstood by her own people, finds a new life with a group of African American settlers in the colony of Monrovia, and when she meets June Dey and Norman Aragon, it isn’t long before they realise that they are all cursed – or, perhaps, uniquely gifted. And in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, Norman Aragon, the child of a white British coloniser and a Maroon slave, can fade from sight at will, just as his mother could. ![]() Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia, June Dey hides his unusual strength until a confrontation forces him to flee. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she nevertheless survives. In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. 'Epic, beautiful, and magical, this astonishing first novel boldly announces the arrival of a remarkable new storyteller' Edwidge Danticat 'This bold début novel uses magic realism to reimagine the founding of Liberia… The force and the symbolism of myth pervade Moore's engrossing tale' New Yorker ![]()
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