Fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez will be intrigued by this debut novel, a reimagining of Liberia’s infancy in the 19th century. Centered on Gbessa, June Dey, and Norman Aragon—a West African villager, a former slave, and the mixed race son of a colonizer and a slave, respectively—the trio band together, using their supernaturally-tinged abilities to resolve social tensions in the settlement of Monrovia.
