21st Century Literature discussion

This is the place for a general, no spoiler discussion of She Would be King.

Here are a few links relating to the book:

A good interview with Moore. from Powell's Books. Very minor spoilers.
https://www.powells.com/post/intervie...

Review from The Guardian. There are some major spoilers here, so you may want to wait until you've finished the second chapter to read it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...

A video interview from Audible. It's titled "On Narrating Her Debut Novel" but the discussion is much more wide ranging, touching on Moore's background, inspirations, and publishing experiences.
https://www.audible.com/blog/videos/b...

This is a good, brief overview of the history of Liberia as it relates to its essential colonization by former American slaves and their frequently fraught relationship with indigenous Liberians.
https://www.thoughtco.com/brief-histo...

Here's a brief history of the Maroons in Jamaica. https://cyber.harvard.edu/eon/marroon...

This video on the Maroons is from couple polished white guys with a YouTube travel channel. It has some some basic history and some excellent video of the mountains where the Maroons lived and live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfVf...

A segment from CaribNation on the Maroons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-US3_...

Thanks Whitney. I read the book last week and look forward to the discussion.

Thought I was going to have to bail on this one, but my library hold just came through---woohoo!

Thanks for these great resources. We are reading this for my book club, so I am hoping a few of my friends will be participating.

Excellent, Marc and Ginny! (And Hugh, of course).

I was posting late last night, and forgot to add that this is the place to post general impressions, other interesting links, etc..

Is anyone listening to the audiobook? I primarily read a print version, but also listened to quite a bit on audio. Moore reads it herself, and she is an actor in addition to being a writer, so she does a great job with the different accents. It's nice hearing the pronunciations of some names, as well.

I read this in audio in September 2019. I rated it 4 stars. My recollection of the book is slowly returning, although I do remember where I was walking for part of the book!

I just finished recently, so looking forward to the discussion! I learned so much about Liberia. I'm embarrassed by how little I knew, but grateful that the book led me to look up a lot more afterwards!

I knew the basic history of Liberia. And I'm old enough to remember when Samuel Doe lead a coup against the ruling class of Liberia to become the first native president. (I also remember Ronald Reagan calling him "Chairman Moe".)

I knew nothing about the history of the Maroons in Jamaica, that was fascinating.