![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moore was only 5 when the civil war began, the middle of three daughters to her young professional parents. ![]() Moore’s 2018 debut was the stunning novel “She Would Be King,” and she follows up her fantastical tale of African diasporic superheroes with a book of gripping realism. Even less common are the voices of women and children in these narratives.īut in her vivid new memoir, “The Dragons, the Giant, the Women,” Liberian-American writer Wayétu Moore successfully challenges all of this representational violence, articulating a multigenerational story of resilience and ingenuity in a time of crisis. Of all the myriad and horrific casualties of war, victims’ stories are probably the least recognized.Ĭivil wars like Liberia’s - which claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people between 19 - are widely discussed by the international community and well-meaning Western political observers, but rarely do we hear the first-person voices of those who were on the ground during these conflicts, trying to survive through the chaos with their families. ![]()
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