An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United StatesWhen Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party
In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch.Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she nevertheless survives to discover new life wi
Coming from the West African village of Lai, a Virginia plantation and Jamaica, three characters meet at the settlement of Monrovia, and it is through their disparate yet connected stories that Wayétu
