She was stalled on a novel (perhaps her acclaimed 2018 book She Would Be King).
At that time, she lived in Brooklyn, and things were not going well. When a rebel arrived in Lai promising to sneak Moore’s family into Sierra Leone, the author breaks the narrative, jumping ahead 25 years to the mid-2010s. After weeks of walking, they found relative safety in the village of Lai, near the border with Sierra Leone, where they would remain for seven months.
Only 5 years old at the time, she was forced to flee her home on foot alongside her family as rebels advanced down her street, guns firing. The first Liberian civil war was a disaster for the people of Liberia, including Moore and her family. A lyrical reckoning with the aftermath of civil war.
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