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All tagged Historical Fiction
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is a story about family, heritage, and identity. Its characters include Kostas, a Greek-Christian Cypriote, who falls in love with Defne, a Turkish-Muslim Cypriote. The story begins when their daughter, 16-year-old Ada, learns that an aunt she’s never met is flying in from Cyprus to visit during the winter holiday.
She Would Be King is a fictional retelling, heavy on the magical realism, of the formation of the country of Liberia. Liberia is a country on the West Coast of Africa that was colonized by an organization known as the American Colonization Society for the express purpose of resettling the growing number of free blacks in the United States on the continent of Africa. Moore’s story focuses on three central characters—Gbessa, June Dey, and Norman— all with supernatural abilities whose paths cross at a pivotal time in the nation’s history.
Conjure Women is a historical fiction set two years after the American Civil War in a rural village of mostly back inhabitants who occupy the former slave quarters of the ruined plantation where they were previously enslaved. The story jumps back and forth through time to tell the story of Miss May Belle, a healer, her daughter, Rue, who’s struggling to fill her mother’s shoes, and Varina, daughter of the former plantation owner. Atakora’s debut novel, Conjure Women is suspenseful, beautifully written, and deeply entertaining.
