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hildren of Blood and Bone is a West African YA fantasy about a girl called Zélie fighting against an oppressive monarchy to bring magic back to her people. It has people riding through jungles and deserts on the backs of giant lions, it has beautiful Gods and Goddesses from West African mythology, it has passionate love and turbulent relationships. It explores these themes of inheritance and legacy and identity.
This book gave me a chance to pay tribute to my parents and my culture in a really unique way. My parents migrated to the Unites States from Nigeria when they were my age, and they did
that so their future kids could have opportunities they never had. To be able to make my dream come true because of their sacrifices, in a world that’s built off the culture they gave me, is something that’s really near to my heart.
Children of Blood and Bone has an all-African cast. I’ve been a reader my whole life, and I am just getting to read books with black protagonists. I never got that when I was young. I never saw a black person on the cover of a book until I was in college, and to be honest growing up I didn’t think black people were allowed to be in books.
Children of Blood and Bone gave me a chance to say what’s in my heart. This book was written during a time where I kept turning on the news and seeing stories of unarmed black men and children being shot by the cops. I felt afraid, I felt angry, I felt helpless and paralysed. So for me this book was the one thing I had that made me feel like I could do something. I felt like if one reader picked it up and it changed their hearts and their minds, I would have given something back to this world. ’
ISBN 978-1-5098-7135-3 | £7.99 Paperback
Auhtor photo © Elena Seibert
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