She Would Be King is written with the sensibilities of a poet and sharp attention to the interior lives of her characters, as well as the external circumstances that inform their behavior. The three meet in Liberia, where they unwittingly join forces to quell French incursion against native people living on the land. The story is narrated by the wind, and features three main characters, none of whom can die: Gbessa, a Vai girl shunned by her own community June Dey, born of a dead woman and an enslaved man on a plantation in Virginia and Norman Aragon, the son of a Maroon woman and an abusive English scholar in Jamaica.
Wayétu Moore is the author of the debut novel, She Would Be King, a story that recasts the founding of Liberia.
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