June Dey’s narrative follows his brutal escape from the clutches of American slavery. His confrontation with an overseer awakens his supernatural strength—not merely physical but emotionally restorative. He is invulnerable; bullets bounce off …

Oct 31, 2018 · She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore’s debut novel published by Graywolf Press, tells the stories of three main characters: Gbessa, a wild and passionate suspected witch; Norman Aragon, a loner descended from the English and Maroons; and June Dey, a fierce runaway slave. The lives of these three characters knit together narratives of the ...

June Dey stands against the master and others from the Emerson plantation in Virginia after his mother is killed, his body withstanding fusillades of rifle fire. But he is not dead; he is just born. Eighteen-year-old Callum Aragon inherits from his mother, a Maroon slave from Jamaica, the ability to vanish from sight at will.

Sep 11, 2018 · When a Virginia slave named Charlotte dies while trying to protect a fellow slave, her death sets in motion a series of supernatural events that changes the tiny West African nation's history. Her son, June Dey, flees from the plantation and soon discovers he has superhuman strength.

June Dey and Norman consider going after her, but realize they have a mission to save other Africans and their villages from attack. In Book Two, “She Would Be King,” the narrative focuses primarily on Gbessa as she becomes more and more involved with families and individuals engaged in the establishment of Liberia, a colony of freed black ...

Sep 13, 2018 · The three main characters–Gbessa (from the Liberian region’s Vai people), Norman (a multiracial man from Jamaica) and June Dey (born on a Virginia plantation)–cover a great deal of turf literally...

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Other characters, such as June Dey and Norman Aragon, play similarly significant roles in the development of the book’s themes, but for the most part, though, its primary plot and thematic focus is on Gbessa and her life.

Apr 24, 2019 · She Would Be King (Graywolf Press, 2018) kicks wakes of dust, blood, and rumbling waves with three pairs of feet. There is Gbessa, Vai witch and daughter of the full moon, banished by her own people for being; June Dey, the American slave born of a ghost’s gaze, who escapes by flinging the bodies of…

Sep 3, 2020 · Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee.