Wayétu Moore — Habila — at Conn Ave

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From the acclaimed author of She Would Be King , a dazzling and daring work of magical realism that weaves through the lives of a Liberian immigrant family and the water goddess who haunts them. In this ambitious new novel, the bestselling and prize winning writer Wayétu Moore delivers us into the lives of a young girl, Melanctha, and her family amid the loss of their patriarch, Tokpa. They relocate from Liberia to the backwater town of Hunt, Texas, a land that proves hostile to them—until one day, a school bully pushes Melanctha into a lake, and she finds that she can breathe underwater. Melanctha discovers that her newfound ability comes from Habila, a gorgeous, beguiling half woman, half sea deity who bestows on her a gift: a comb that, if touched, can lure people i…

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