as well as eight romance novels (written under the pen name Selena Montgomery). One of eight books she tagged at Vanity Fair:The Moor’s Account by Laila LalamiRead about the other entries on the list.
Her novel about Estebanico, a Moroccan slave who was part of Narváez expedition, uses the narrative device of a fictional memoir to excavate the horror faced by African slaves and native peoples in 16th-century Florida. His story makes the reader uncomfortable, angry, and bereft by turn—yet willing to endure all to see it through to the end.
--Marshal Zeringue
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