She Would Be King
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Three characters with extraordinary powers meet in a reimagining of Liberia's founding.
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She Would Be King provides a fictional entry that reimagines Liberia’s history through magical realism. The same writer’s The Dragons, the Giant, the Women is a distinct memoir of escape and migration. The House at Sugar Beach examines a lost childhood through Helene Cooper’s perspective. Memoirs by Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf offer different women’s accounts of war, public action and rebuilding.
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Three characters with extraordinary powers meet in a reimagining of Liberia's founding.
The author recalls her childhood escape from Liberia, life in Texas and a later return.

Memories of a privileged childhood encompass the 1980 coup and emigration.
Scribner
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Gbowee recounts her path towards organising Liberia’s women’s peace movement.
PublicAffairs
Edition source ↗Sirleaf’s autobiography follows her education, political life and route to Liberia’s presidency.
Harper
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A biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf traces her path to leadership in postwar Liberia.
An investigation into a police chief’s disappearance exposes a Liberian town’s secrets.
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