A West African fantasy with enveloping world-building
In the month of September, Ask a Bookseller is featuring recommendations for kids and teens. This week, bookseller Linda Stack-Nelson of Wild Rumpus Books for Young Readers in Minneapolis recommended the debut young adult novel “Raybearer” by Nigerian-American author Jordan Ifueko. “To me, it is the perfect debut,” says Stack-Nelson. “You always hear the adage, that you have your entire life to write the first book and then two years to write every book thereafter. You can just tell that Jordan Ifueko has been writing this book her entire life. It has so much depth, and so much detail…
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