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Author: Wayétu Moore
Graywolf Press, 272 pages, $26
“I come for you,” Satta said, spitting on the ground in front of Papa. “You and your daughters.” Satta, dressed in fatigues with a military-grade rifle slung over her shoulder, is carrying a jug of palm oil and a bag of fresh native greens. It’s 1991 and for 5-year-old Wayétu Moore, this is a moment burned indelibly into her psyche.
An expanding civil war in Liberia had forced Wayétu and her father, grandmother and two sisters to hurriedly leave the capital, Monrovia, and walk for days with little food or water into the backlands of her family’s traditional Vai tribal homeland. Along the way they heard frequent gunfire, saw bloody corpses, deserted homes and burnt-out vehicles, and had to endure or elude intermittent rebel roadblocks.