This book has a great premise that I was worried about going in and still worried about about a third the way through: what if the Atlantic slave trade were reversed, with Africa being the place of power in the world, scavenging and harvesting the people of Europe for trade in human trafficking? This is a rich topic and can only be handled in a kind of satire, as anything less tongue in cheek than satire would be offensive or completely antipathetic. In the first […]
The Ambossans also called Europa, the Gray Continent, on account of the skies always being overcast.
Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo